Word: raptness
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During the prayer, Franklin Roosevelt looked rapt in thought, but during the hymns (O God, Our Help in Ages Past and A Mighty Fortress Is Our God) his fine baritone could be heard clear and confident above the male choir. From church he went to the Capitol to address the joint birthday session of Congress...
...death, a memorial concert has been held in his honor. Last week dignified 66-year-old Stock ambled to his place on the stage of Chicago's long-used Orchestra Hall to commemorate for the 34th time the death of his predecessor. Behind him sat 2,500 rapt Chicagoans, many of them oldsters who had heard their first overture played under Thomas' energetic baton. Solemnly they listened while white-haired Stock conducted Debussy's Berceuse héroique, Richard Strauss's A Hero's Life, Beethoven's heroic Fifth Symphony...
Then, at a stroke, the murder. Then, with a counterstroke, the murderers, using mealy-mouthed journalese, try to justify their crime. In this sudden contrast of shoddy human self-seeking with rapt spiritual self-abnegation, Eliot gets in a brutal and final punch...
...sets will and strength above mere brains, thereby echoing the philosophy of his contemporary, Friedrich Nietzsche, his present-day German disciples have gone him one better. What to him was a theme for art and philosophy is to them a principle of practical politics. Realmleader Hitler is himself a rapt worshipper of Wagner's music. The Ride of the Walküre is one of his favorite entrance marches for big State occasions. Frau Winifred Wagner, daughter-in-law of the late great composer and friend of the Realmleader, is Germany's musical matriarch. Wagner's Norse...
Many of his audience leaned forwrd in rapt attention, many of them listening not to his voice but to the voices of interpreters speaking to them through earphones, for his audience included Belgians, Czechoslovaks. Finns, Letts, Mexicans. Dutch. Poles, Swedes, Uruguayans, Yugoslavs, French, Chinese and Japanese. Equally rapt were British, Canadians, Indians. For all knew that though John Winant's words sounded like idealism, they were really business...