Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are few sounds as ominously suggestive of the passing of time as the regular tramp of feet. Guilty men hear in it the approaching minions of the law and in their terror rush to confess. The imaginative are reminded of tortured spirits to whom death has not meant peace...
Critics have nearly always prophesied speedy neglect for Richard Strauss,* now 62, and have simultaneously hailed him again and once more the foremost living composer. The subject of their judgment may be an old man, his apogee undoubtedly passed. But the creations of Richard Strauss, are never treated casually, for...
Salomé, his third opera, first produced in 1905, was a literal sensation. Because of the realistic power with which the composer treated the theme, for which he chose Oscar Wilde's necrophilistic version, U. S. presentations were banned for some time after the first Metropolitan hearing in Manhattan...
Significance. The speech of General Hertzog created a sensation because of its tone of loyalty to the Empire. At London Premier Hertzog fulminated so violently against the very word "Empire" that even the King-Emperor began to refer to the "Commonwealth."
Nevertheless one wonders if Mr. Larkin does not feel something of the pride which moved Cheops when he built the pyramid which was rather a sensation in his day, of Nebuchadnezzar when he ordered the hanging gardens. There will be no awful monument to a heath on god atop the...