Word: reprimanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio station. Nine years later Egk wrote an opera, The Magic Violin, which has become part of the regular repertory in German opera houses. Impressed, the Berlin State Opera hired him as a conductor. Under the Nazis, Egk's career throve pleasantly enough, although he got a stiff reprimand in 1938 for "working along the lines of 'Kulturbolschewist' Kurt Weill." He had a brief wartime success with a ballet, Joan of Zarissa, which was produced in occupied Paris. After the war, Egk went through the denazification wringer and was finally cleared...
...lumpy mattress and a single blanket left him aching and cold. By prison rules, hands had to be kept outside the blanket, and a naked light bulb was always trained on his head. Any attempt to tuck in frozen fingers or face away from the light brought a barked reprimand from the guard at the peephole...
This week the patrolman, still smarting from a reprimand, was back on the job. Tests showed him out of immediate danger,* and his name was withheld by his cautious employers. But suspicious Richlanders, who thought they might have visited him or shaken his hand, were already asking for a personal swabbing down and an atomic housecleaning of their...
...thinking. Thorez made unorthodox statements such as "One thing happened in Russia, another will happen in France. We'll have our French revolution in our own French fashion." Three times Thorez had been slapped down by the Kremlin for nationalist tendencies. Each time he took his reprimand like a good Kremlin offspring, welcoming the blows, enthusiastically agreeing that they were for his own good...
Thanking you gives me an excuse to reprimand you for a not too accurate statement. In your review [in the same issue] of Poems by Christopher Smart you say that "[Editor Robert] Brittain's efforts may rescue Smart from his long imprisonment in a literary footnote." It is true that Smart had to wait a long time to receive his proper praise (and appraisal) as a highly original poet. But, after almost two centuries of neglect, Smart has been discovered and rediscovered in the last dozen years. I refer, for example, to the ten pages devoted...