Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evocations, as in many earlier works* (Schelomo, Israel Symphony, Sacred Service, Voice in the Wilderness), Bloch mixes French Impressionism with fervent Levantine lamentation, getting an idiomatic pottage peculiarly his own. His finest scores reflect the barbaric splendor of the Old Testament, sing their Hebraic song with prophetic thunder and wailing intensity. Even his "America" Symphony -which won a $5,000 prize offered in 1927 by Musical America for the most distinguished work by a resident American- was colored by Hebraic idioms...
Occupants of Manhattan's Empire State Building, world's tallest structure, have quailed many times at a brilliant bolt of lightning accompanied by an immediate clap of thunder. Many of them have not realized that the building itself is often struck, that since the steel frame of a big building acts as a lightning rod, carrying off the charge, its occupants are well protected...
...comin'" yells someone, amid other cries of pleasure. And she is coming. Poising delicately before the catastrophe, the walls slowly lean over the cellar far below; then rushes earthward. There is an instant of silence, immediately shattered by the magnificent thunder of the 20 tons of bricks smashing into the dobris. A cloud of dust shoots up, accompanied by a few stray bricks. The boys applaud the spectacle with hoarse cheering and yelling...
...important. As cinema it is tedious, technically crude, lacking in coherence. Here and there are pictorial groupings, interesting enough in themselves, but poorly related in the general clutter of hyper-religious abracadabra and the familiar hocus-pocus of third-rate melodrama. The mere mention of Kabala brings on thunder-and-lightning overtones; a departing soul is the signal for banging casements, flickering candles, fluttering curtains. Valiantly pushing its way through is a slender story of a boy (L. Libgold) and a girl (Lili Liliana) promised to each other at birth, driven to desperation when they are parted. The boy invokes...
...Historical Principles, and their associates, who for twelve years have been working on separating U. S. English from English English (TIME, Sept. 21, 1936), were almost finished with the Bs last week. Issued by the University of Chicago Press was the third section of their dictionary, Blood and Thunder- Butterfly...