Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sneath kept trying. To the master of another distinguished school he wrote: "You will doubtless remember old Tubby Sneath-well, it will give you a helluva shock, you old bounder, because last year I took the headship here . . . Listen, Stinker, quite seriously, Selhurst is having a beano for its 300th anniversary on June 19. Could you come down, old boy, and give us a sermon on the Sunday?" Returned the headmaster's secretary, on the distinguished man's behalf: "Obviously not meant...
...thousand pieces. Reuther spun, staggered and fell to the floor like a man who had been clubbed. For a second there was no more sound. Mrs. Reuther stood transfixed. Reuther lay on his back, industriously trying to move his bloody right arm and deciding, with the casualness of shock, that it had been blown...
...which was played with finesse and showed off to best advantage the Band's excellent brass sonority, as well as the adeptness of its wind section in soft passages. One part of the "Intermezzo" reminded this listener of that hideous monstrosity, the Khatchatourian "Sabre Dance," but after the initial shock had subsided, the "Intermezzo" emerged as the most enjoyable part of the Suite...
...Shock. The choice of Koussevitzky's successor was something of a surprise, but not a shock. Koussevitzky's 29-year-old protégé Leonard Bernstein had long had the inside track with his sponsor, but not with the symphony's trustees. The post went instead to 56-year-old Alsatian Charles Münch, who first came to the U.S. in December 1946, has since guest-conducted in Boston, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...
...brother Theo, he said: "I am struggling with all my energy to master my work . . . if I win that will be the best lightning conductor for my illness." That illness was possibly epilepsy, but it has also been defined as manic depression. Today, it might have been given electric shock treatment. As gallerygoers could see, Van Gogh's self-prescribed therapy was also a "shock treatment...