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Last winter, as he listened to the roar of German artillery and watched the sputtering of German incendiaries from the roof of Leningrad's Conservatory of Music, Fire Warden Shostakovich snapped: "Here the muses speak together with the guns...
...marches is On the Mall. Written for the dedication of a new bandstand in Central Park, it so displeased Goldman that he shelved it. When he finally tried it out at an open-air concert, he directed with one hand, held his nose with the other. The roar of applause so surprised him that he nearly reeled off the stand...
...coalpits scarcely miss a shift. Lan-arkshire iron and metal works roar 24 hours a day. While vast schemes are going forward for converting to agriculture more of the one-sixth of Scotland that is locked up in huge, private hunting preserves, Benedictine monks at Fort Augustus have hiked up their habits and converted ten acres of monastery land into a victory garden. From low-ceilinged island cottages comes the never-ending keening of Heb-riden women mourning their men lost...
...debate on the amendment would not break into a roar until its second reading, later this week. At that time, the Prime Minister was expected to attempt another appeasement of French-speaking Quebec Province by indicating that conscription would not be invoked until absolutely necessary. If he didn't, this week's resignation of Transport Minister Pierre Cardin was a forerunner of a bolt from the Liberal Party of virtually every French Canadian in the Cabinet and in Parliament...
Over the hungry and stricken land there rose once more the deep-throated roar of Jacques ("The Great") Doriot...