Word: sturm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spontaneity that might have been wished for. There is a passage in the last movement in which there is no theme but just a general movement of jollity among the strings. Even the "lyric pathos" of the andante perhaps never intended to possess all the profundity that "Sturm and Drang" commentators embillish it with. More Mozart the audience seemed to want, and certainly we could enjoy it more often than the current programmes have allowed...
...teacher and becomes a dues-collecting unit of freemasonry, he will step out into the world tolerably well-acquainted with Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dryden, Tennyson and other literary worthies. He may even know the encyclopaedic facts concerning the French Romanticists of the gaslit era and the battlefields of the Sturm und Drang may be an open book to him. But it is questionable whether or not he is sufficiently prepared to keep his calm in a world of raucous dust cover blurbs, eclectic modern poetry, and rumbling Broadway controversies. Had he been able, for example, as a senior, to supplement...
Revived, Captain Onslow (Warner Baxter) is in a peculiar position. He is affianced to a blonde Baroness Von Sturm (Miriam Jordan) but he decides that it would be more generous to break the engagement so that she will fall in love with his rival (John Boles). Highly satisfied with his experience of death, he is able to reassure an old lady that her departed son is well and happy, a small girl that her little brother has elephants to play with. He attends an important conference in time to cast the vote that defeats a treaty which would have injured...
...Sturm und Drang". Professor Burkhard, Germanic Museum...