Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his last years the old soldier was stooped and weak. His cheeks were sunken and his once-square chin, below his clipped mustache, was bony and sharp. At times he was petulant. He fumed at being photographed, once cried: "To hell with the War Department-they can't make me have my picture taken...
...about everything since to be severe and dry, a kind of music he regards as "more mature." In the years since The Rite, Stravinsky has turned out some 60 works, including The Wedding which is virtually a textbook today in some music classes; a remarkable oratorio, Oedipus Rex; The Soldier's Tale, Symphonies for Wind Instruments, Symphony in Three Movements, a Violin Concerto. All are as precisely and beautifully made as a fine watch-and, say his critics, most are about as emotional...
...well run as a revolution could be. First, it was financed by Lieut. Colonel Alfonso Llosa, commander of Peruvian army forces high in the Andes by the Bolivian border. Hotheaded, reactionary Soldier Llosa forcibly borrowed 100,000 soles from the local bank; then he issued a clarion call to the army to rise against President Bustamante...
...Ransom!" The Salvation Army (first called the Christian Mission) and Evangeline were both born in the same year. At 15 she was fitted out with a sergeant's uniform and sallied forth as a full-fledged soldier of Christ. The Salvationists of those days lived in a world of bitter war. Mission houses were "citadels" and "forts," converts were "prisoners of war" or "trophies." Posters proclaimed...
When a suspicious British soldier leads a searching party to the house, Dennehay goes over the cliff and is smashed to death. As Author Godden handles this story, it becomes at once an anguished lyric and a beautifully balanced tale of suspense...