Word: rants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Furthermore, men do almost all the talking. And Shakespeare has let them harangue at high pitch and at great length. They rant and sermonize; they like to say things twice, and to explore abstractions. Shakespeare also overloads their speech with lots of heavy Latinate words and forms that he never uses anywhere again: orgulous, corresponsive, conflux, tortive, insisture, oppugnancy, propugnation, assubjugate, unplausive, rejoindure, embrasures, commixtion, deceptious, constringed, concupy...
...officer, a combat airman, and he conferred on himself the navy title of comandante. He lost the sight of one eye landing his aircraft and sank a merchantman from a torpedo boat. To the end he remained the most bellicose of belligerents, complaining only "of the stench of peace." Rant & Rave. The peace left Italy with little to show for its half million dead. Beginning with nothing but bluff, strut and 287 men. D'Annunzio made his famed "march" (by -truck much of the way) on Fiume. which Woodrow Wilson thought should belong to one of his creations-Yugoslavia...
...been D'Annunzio's rant and rave that prepared the way for Mussolini. But after he took power in 1922. the warrior poet lived out his life as the chief object of interest in a museum full of works of art. historic relics and junk. He died in 1938. not long before World War II brought Italy "the fountains of blood and tears" the poet had promised, and history made its final savage exegesis of his life-work-the butchered bodies of Mussolini and his mistress strung up by the heels...