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...concert began, the reasons for the success of the work practically hammered at the listeners' ears: this kind of music sounded big and flashy without forcing the audience out of its after-dinner stupor. The chorus sang the simplest kind of melody, from mild love lyrics and nursery-rhyme interludes to rowdy drinking songs and Teutonic gallops, set against passages of syncopated whispering and of sudden, surprising fortissimos. The orchestra sometimes provided halfhearted modernities, medieval primitivisms. Its percussion section was usually busy as a steam calliope on circus day. Most of the lyrics were in vulgarized but vital Latin...
Mireille's body is not in the Paris morgue, and, most unnerving of all, it shows signs of life. Ravinel receives letters in Mireille's handwriting and learns that she has registered at a Left Bank hotel. Even proud, logical Lucienne reacts with a look of stupor and alarm to the baffling news, but expresses a violent professional conviction: nobody could be alive after 48 hours under water. The guilt-stricken Ravinel takes it harder; he is convinced his wife is a ghost, and he goes to pieces puzzling over how Mireille can be dead and alive...
...handsome man. he attracted women by the scores (at least two of his castoff in amoratas committed suicide). By 1935, though, Bodenheim was no longer in vogue. Sales of his murky verse (Minna and Myself) and erotic novels (Replenishing Jessica) dwindled away, and he sank gradually into the bleary stupor of the alcoholic. He flapped disconsolately around the Village resting up periodically in the Bellevue alcoholic ward, sleeping in gutters, hallways and subways (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952). On a rainswept night three years ago, he met his third wife, a writer of sorts, in the middle of Washington Square. Ruth...
...heavily wooded area ten miles east of Kansas City. They drove away. Carl Hall scrambled up from a hiding place under the bridge. He put the bag in the station wagon parked in a thicket near by. Bonnie Heady, he said later, was sprawled "in an alcoholic stupor" in the car. Hall did not wait round to count the money-three times larger than any ransom ever paid in the U.S. He never did get around to counting...
...Daylight comes, but in the 24th hour, Lindbergh has to strike his face and arms viciously and stamp his feet to keep awake. Over and over again he does his navigation chores: ". . . And 12 make 23. Twenty-three-what do I want with 23?" But even in a semi-stupor, he does his chores right. In the 27th hour, he joyously sights some fishing smacks. Diving to 50 ft., he throttles his motor and yells: "Which way is Ireland?" He gets no answer, but within an hour he is over the Irish coast. Then come the Cornish cliffs of England...