Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Giuseppe Verdi, 1813-1901; Jeanne D'Arc, Overture (1845); II Trovatore Selection (1853); La Forza Del Destino, Overture (1862); Aida, Fantasia (1871); Othello, The Tempest (1887). Eugen Onegin, Fantasia Tchaikovsky Slegfried, Forest Murmurs Wagner Carmen, Toreador Song Bizet Goyescas, Intermezzo Granados Samson and Delilah, Bacchanale Saint-Saens
Having harkened well to this tempest about his ears, whooped up by editors who called him "Monsieur" Chamberlain, Sir Austen at length announced in the House of Commons that the Government position in this matter was as yet undetermined. An Honorable Member queried: "Is it not a fact that the extraordinary League session now assembling is being convoked to deal exclusively with the question of Germany's admission?" Testily Sir Austen snapped: "That is no fact...
...could hardly imagine a teapot small enough for this tempest. Mutual understanding seems to be circumscribed by a menu card. Be it admitted that great and holy causes are at stake on both sides and that "all is fair in love and war"; yet Mars would hardly stoop to wield a bill of fare...
...British Labor Party has been sent on to its present power by a spiritual, not a material urge", said Mr. Albert Mansbridge in an informal lecture at the Union last night. Mr. Mansbridge, who educated himself while working in a railroad signal tower by rewriting Shakespeare's "Tempest" 1000 times, spoke of the tremendous thirst for education possessed by the British working classes...
...Significance. Here is an Elysian Held of fantasy out of which one will flush any number of gorgeous poetical pheasants, sly ironical foxes, and profoundly philosophical serpents. Shakespeare's Tempest is the most convenient comparison for beauty of writing. Feminism, immaculate conceptions and modern democracies are the chief butts of satire. Such a book has not been written since La Revolte des Anges...