Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loeb is a splenetic individualist for whom the description reactionary seems inexact. Daily News Publisher-Editor John S. Knight is a man of calmer mien whose estrangement from President Eisenhower is more restrained and at the same time more significant. For a report on two noteworthy journalists, see PRESS, Thunder on the Right and "That Stinking Hypocrite...
...once, or to be judged on first hearing. But after a while there emerges from Webern's works a kind of rhythmic logic all his own. There are the same echoes of a distorted reality that characterize Kafka -the sound of church bells (or is it thunder?), snatches of bugles and drums (but what living army ever marched to such a beat?), or a sudden hop and skip, as of a fragmented polka (but no belle ever danced to such measures...
...dream car to give the poetess inspiration. After looking at them, Miss Moore replied: "I am by no means sure that I can help you to the right thing, but performance with elegance casts a spell. Let me do some thinking in the direction of impeccable, symmechromatic, thunder-blender . . . (The exotics, if I can shape them a little.) Dearborn might come into one ... I thank you for realizing that under contract esprit could not flower. You owe me nothing, specific or moral...
Andante con Moto. After that, Poetess Moore really began producing. Samples: "Mongoose Civique, Thunder Crester, Dearborn Diamante, Magigravure, Pastelogram, Regina-rex, Taper Racer, Varsity Stroke, Astranaut, Chaparral, Tir à l'arc (bull's-eye), Triskelion (three legs running), Pluma Piluma (hairfine, feather-foot), Andante con Moto (description of a good motor?)." Wrote she on Dec. 8, 1955. "May I submit UTOPIAN TURTLE-TOP? Do not trouble to answer unless you like it." Wired back Wallace happily on Dec. 23 (not forgetting to send two dozen roses): "MERRY CHRISTMAS TO OUR FAVORITE TURTLETOPPER...
...Shakespeare contributes youth, blood, and thunder to the evening, Eliot House contributes a worthy production...