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...Confederate officer aboard the Shenandoah who witnessed the conflagration recalled "a scene never to be forgotten by any one who beheld it." As flames consumed them, the eight crewless vessels drifted like crazed, rudderless ghost-ships amid the ice-floes. "The red glare from the eight burning vessels shone far and wide over the drifting ice of those savage seas; the crackling of the fire as it made its devouring way through each doomed ship fell on the still air like upbraiding voices." Chaos reigned: "The sea was filled with boats driving hither and thither, with no hand to guide...
...seeing the sunny rows of poplars and hearing the sounds of town children playing just down the road from the remains of torture chambers, low-level barracks and human furnaces. ?It all seemed frighteningly wrong, as in a nightmare,? he wrote. ?It would be fitting if the sun never shone and the grass withered, because this is a place of unutterable terror...
Tringali spruced up the seniors’ first draft with some parliamentary mumbo-jumbo about furthering Currier HoCo’s fundraising efforts, but the heart of the bill shone through: “Whereas Evan R. Johnson (Dunster ’06) has repeatedly failed to satisfy women of all sizes, ethnicities, ages, races, religions and sexual preferences...
...orchestra’s finest moment as a unified musical ensemble, at times wailing with ominous darkness and at others lilting on tentative happiness. A stunning staccato passage in the third movement gave way to the bombastic power and arched backs of the performers in the fourth. The woodwinds shone throughout the piece, playing runs and falls that jumped across the strings’ solid foundation.At the end of the concert, Yannatos and Finne were able to look out confidently on the enraptured crowd, the pride on their faces clearly earned...
Still, BachSoc positively shone during its rendition of Mozart’s “Symphony...