Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noisy, patriotic hullabaloo is Peter Ilich Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture. Depicting Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, it ends with a mixture of the Marseillaise, the Imperial Russian anthem and - so reads the score - a terrific salvo of artillery fire. Although most orchestras dub in cymbals and timpani, the 1812 has sometimes been performed with real cannon. Last week in Philadelphia, Conductor Eugene Ormandy's decision to blitz the 1812 gave the Philadelphia Orchestra a cute little publicity story...
Almost overnight, with stunning suddenness, a popular intellectual cause has become an unpopular one. Its proponents are being subjected to attacks, insults, and threats that would have seemed fantastic only a few months ago. But on an issue as important as this one it is not right to retreat, or to keep quiet, for silence gives assent, and assent may mean ruin...
...below Liege, two more above and below Sedan. When General Guderian unleashed his Army, all Allied preconceptions of these columns' speed and power went overboard. As did their machines of the air, the Germans' land machines so overwhelmed the Allies that only courage and discipline saved "strategic retreat" from immediately becoming "rout...
Attack Army's task was to push on & on never to retreat except to resume formation, never to worry about food, fuel, ammunition supply, which would be sent forward to them in due time. Should a Panzer column reach an impasse, its duty was to fan out in all directions, like an exploding projectile: to play havoc upon railroads, telegraph, telephone, power, gas and water lines...
...gather inland at Changsha, others were to filter through enemy lines to Sian. Thousands of students gathered at these rendezvous, made shift to study while they awaited further orders. In the spring of 1938 the orders came. Then began one of history's strangest migrations-an orderly retreat of China's civilization...