Word: moonstruck
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...began to understand that Debussy was attempting something new in opera; by reducing the vocal parts to declamation-close to spoken language-he was trying to elevate the orchestra to a position of new importance, where it would become the main commentator on the action. His opera's moonstruck tale of love and fratricide, which returned to the Metropolitan last week after an absence of two seasons, had a staunch admirer in Alban Berg, who acknowledged that Pelléas provided him with the model for his own tradition-smashing Wozzeck. But for all his growing success, Debussy...
...Perfectly Moonstruck." While President Monroe was pondering this prospect, Britain's Foreign Minister George Canning proposed a joint declaration by the U.S. and British governments warning the European powers against any attempt to reconquer Spanish America...
...negotiations stalled on the recognition issue, the news reached Washington that the French had taken Cadiz, the last stronghold of the Spanish revolutionists. In his diary, Secretary Adams recorded that Monroe was "alarmed," and that Secretary of War Calhoun was "perfectly moonstruck" with dismay...
...nearly 40 years: eleven volumes of verse, two verse plays and two prose books, including The Enormous Room, ex-World War I Ambulance Driver Cummings' precise account of prison camp life. Through most of all this, he continued to sound like a young poet alternately angry or moonstruck. It was an enormous limitation, and it made it easy to enumerate what he lacked that such poets as Frost and Eliot and Pound abundantly had. But it also led to Cummings' unique satirical and lyrical achievement, which caused Critic Allen Tate last week to declare that Cummings...
...only necessity would draw any Frenchman to Maubeuge (pop. 30,000), a cheerless, Hoboken-like manufacturing center up near the Belgian border, where the moon-or, for that matter, the sun-shines rarely on the River Sambre. But all summer long the roads to Maubeuge have been jammed with moonstruck vacationers, honeymooners and touring rubbernecks, all lured there by what promises to become Europe's next popular hit-a tango called Un Clair de Lune à Maubeuge (Moonlight at Maubeuge...