Word: pandemoniums
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...THEN, amidst all this panoramic pandemonium, Stanley Kunitz appeared like a revelation. Revelation? Perhaps his coming was more like the salvation of the American poetic sensibility. He, like some of the other American poets who followed him, had translated Yevtushenko's poems in Stolen Apples. Since most of the translators do not read Russian, they were evidently given literal translations to adapt, according to their own styles, into English. "The result--these English adaptations--" writes Anthony Kahn in his translator's preface to the book, "are interchanges between one poet and another." Accordingly, I suppose, Kunitz and the other American...
...casualties on those who were attacking them with firearms and with bombs." At this point Devlin leaped to her feet on a point of order. When her objection was curtly dismissed by the Speaker, she shrieked, "Is it in order for the Minister to lie to the House?" As pandemonium broke loose, Laborite Hugh Delargy bellowed that the paratroopers would go down in history "with the same odium" as the hated Black and Tans of the 1920s...
...audience clapped and stomped for over five minutes, demanding that Beck return. When he finally came back on stage for an encore, he said only "we're going to rock this place," and true to his promise, he launched back into "Got the Feeling," sending the crowd into pandemonium...
...early hours of morning are the only time of day that one can find respite from the pandemonium caused by these the most uncultured San Quentin inmates. I don't let the noise bother me...because I try to understand my surroundings. I've asked myself, as I do about
...around that it was the Robert MacNamara who had been billeted in Stoughton, thus making the former Secretary of Defense the prime candidate for an honorary degree-and, to those who remembered MacNamara's last public visit to Cambridge, it sounded like Commencement would be a nightmare of pandemonium...