Word: sturm
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...both books leave an outsider bemused. To be sure, CBS News has gone through troubled times, and the questions raised here are serious ones for all of TV journalism. But much of this inside stuff is little more than the predictable sturm und drang of corporate politicking. Couldn't the conflict between yesterday people and today people, for example, be explained less ominously as the normal tendency of new management to favor its own people over the previous regime's? Aren't clashes like the one between Rather and Joyce common to any large organization employing strong-willed creative people...
Slowly, the big man begins to speak. Slowly, the intrepid reporter begins to listen. The big man tells a tale of loss, of suffering, of sturm, and of drang. But there is humor, too, in his voice. A quiet resolution. The firm determination of a man who refuses to be squashed by the turmoil of uncertain fate...
...Brahms?" asks an old joke making light of the composer's changing musical idiom. But if the composer had always written music like his three sonatas for violin and piano, the witticism would never have gained currency. Far removed from the composer's youthful sturm und drang, these autumnal pieces represent a tempered and philosophical old master...
...detective story is possible, albeit difficult. However, the task is obviously beyond Parker. Though an extremely talented craftsman, he has consistently found it difficult to muster cinematic subtlety. His previous efforts (Midnight Express, Pink Floyd: The Wall, and Birdy to name three) are virtual textbooks in cinematic exhibitionism, from "sturm und dreck" junior high metaphysics to high school psychoses...
...refer to the process of "thinking logically") and that empiricism refers to the belief that all ideas are derived from sensory perceptions? How many users know the difference between a regular grand jury and a grand jury? And how many of us know enough about German literature to use sturm und drang correctly? Or about the Peloponnesian War which inspired some historian to coin Pyrrhic victory, to make a golden apple of this idiom, rather than dilute its meaning every time...