Word: roar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homeward. Then, just before midnight, telephones began to jangle as friends and relatives living in border towns frantically put in calls to the capital. The alert was spread by taxi drivers and owners of private cars, who raced through the medieval streets with their horns wailing warning. Soon the roar of jet engines reverberated through the night skies; Russian planes were flying ominously low. At 1:10 a.m., Radio Prague interrupted a program of music to confirm the worst: "Yesterday, on August 20, about 11 p.m., troops of the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic and the Hungarian People...
Some composers challenge posterity with a roar. Others woo it with seductive languor or graceful wit. Austrian Composer Anton Webern conjured it with a whisper. A shy, intense man who physically shrank from noise, he wrote spare, slight pieces filled with directions like "scarcely audible" and "dying away." Such was the understated economy of his scores that his life's work amounts to a bare three hours of playing time. Nearly all of his compositions take less than ten minutes to perform. He turned out works containing as much silence as music, and that was how an indifferent world...
...hostile. For weeks, despite his self-imposed obligation to defend the Johnson Administration and its policies, the Vice President has sought assiduously to outline the prospect of an independent, innovative Humphrey regime. To date, however, the exuberant Minnesotan has had to take consolation from delegate arithmetic rather than the roar of the crowd...
Thus the General, played by Ronald Hunter, is kept fulminating for the whole time at a steady roar--the wit of so many of his lines gets lost in the over-blown bustle. This is not the actor's fault but follows from the director's faulty conception of the play. Hunter is more controlled in the scene (in both senses of the word) with his bedridden wife (Sheila Hart...
...tracks on wheels, the howl of the whistle, the engine, and the train and its heavy coaches...all on guitar, drums and bass. The drums go quiet, the train chugs to a start. Beck blares once, twice, thrice, Waller plays on his tom-toms and then the roar of the engine, gears clashing, wheels performing, the miles flying, The Boston Tea Party light squad flashes a picture of a locomotive on the main wall, a picture of Bismark on the right wall and its all perfect. The show is over...