Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eliot has never been an artist likely to please the bulk of that great audience. Simply as a rather solemn American-turned-Englishman, he is personally unsympathetic to many. His work lacks commonness in the good sense of that word as well as the bad. It requires a patience of ear and of intellect which many readers lack; patience not merely in one reading but in many. For a long time, too, it was easy to misjudge Eliot, thanks to certain of his admirers, as the mere precious laureate of a Harvardian coterie. But that time, fortunately, is well past...
Noting that they write in "this solemn hour when it is important to collect all strength for the welfare of the Fatherland," the bishops called for a halt to the "unrestricted antireligious agitation of Star party officers . . . destructive measures against the Church and Christianity. . . . One cannot expect to win hard-working and upright people for Germany and at the same time destroy the happiness of their hearts. . . . One cannot undertake to build a new and fairer Europe and to destroy Christianity at the same time...
That course, on the solemn word of Stalin - repeated last week in the most positive terms he has ever used - cannot be a peace without victory. Said he, in a passage which was also an iron preachment to his Allies : "What sort of peace can be in question with the imperialist Fascists who have flooded Europe with blood and covered her with gallows? Is it not clear that only the complete rout of the Hitlerite armies and the unconditional surrender of Hitlerite Germany can bring Europe to peace? Is it not because they feel the approach of the coming catastrophe...
...raft in the Pacific with Eddie Rickenbacker's shipwrecked airmen, Lieut. James C. Whittaker saw the stirrings of a national movement. "We all saw Johnny reading his Bible, his freckled face solemn as an owl's and the sun glinting on his red hair," he wrote in his new book We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing. "No one kidded...
...finest orchestral conductors alive, a sovereign interpreter of music old & new, is no solemn priest of tone but the ebullient son of Britain's most celebrated laxative manufacturer. Goateed, 63-year-old Sir Thomas Beecham is also an enthusiastic newlywed, a considerable amateur of the Elizabethan drama (especially Beaumont & Fletcher), an adamant and voluble Tory (though in this role he is really more of a Character than a Colonel Blimp), and a transparent apostle...