Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Archie McConnell, Adams House janitor, found the storm "of gale proportions," but not much heavier than the average "north or south-easter." The only damage was several broken windows in the Randolph section. Accounting for the fact that the hurricane did not reach the proportions of the 1938 tempest, when traffic was halted for several days, McConnell declared sagely that "it went...
...Time Being is simultaneously an intense declaration of the poet's new-found religious faith and a rejection of the more self-centered aspects of his brilliant past. A slim (132 pages) volume, it consists of two dramas in verse and prose: a commentary on Shakespeare's Tempest, and a Christmas oratorio...
...Silence." Principal mouthpiece for the new Auden is Shakespeare's Prospero, the magician in The Tempest, who in his old age throws his books of magic into the sea, breaks his wand, dismisses his wonder-working servant Ariel, abandons his magic island for the mild humdrum of everyday life. In Auden's version, Prospero's farewell to Ariel represents the mature intellectual's adieu to the glorious but unreal life of personal fantasy...
...Argentine Historian Leopoldo Lugones on onetime President and historian Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ("the Argentine Jefferson"): "Danger was his habit and wrath his beauty; his dimensions became those of a deity, cleaving the air like lightning, riding the tempest with a cloud at his belt and a thunderbolt on his shoulder...
...Niffnaw, a U.S. colloquialism, means a teapot-tempest. It may possibly be derived from the old Scottish dialect word niffnaff, meaning "trifle " example (from a poem by Scottish Poet Allan Ramsay...