Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke bluntly and honestly, as always. He also betrayed a personal sense of outrage and irritation. But even so he did not stir audiences. At times fewer than two or three dozen people collected to hear him speak from courthouse steps; he seemed uncomfortable as he stepped forward to shake hands. When he spoke at Cadiz, a knot of roughneck strip miners booed, and called "Throw...
...impressionists made a bold effort to start afresh. They went into the fields, where perspective laws barely apply, and painted in broad daylight, with the sun behind them, to shake the tyranny of shadows from their colors. The best results, done in bright contrasting dabs of pigment, shone with a fluid sparkle new to art, but surprisingly enough they still looked like windows on an illusory world. The revolution had just begun...
...Something is happening in the world today which is going to shake our civilization to its very foundations...
Snow and dampness have kept the oversized squad from journeying outdoors, and hour exams coming so shortly before the opener have not been conducive to practice, so just how the team will shake up is practically anybody's guess right now. The weeding process was completed last night, however, and the team has been pared down from an original 80 to an even...
...high points of the composition come for this listener at the conclusion of the first and second acts, when the chorus and orchestra combine in a variety of massive effects that shake the audience in its seats. There are weak points in the composition--occasional almost move-music techniques, for example--but the work as a whole is superbly concentrated and consistently tightly written...