Word: torments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phantoms jostle; winds squeal like demented fiddles; ghosts squeak like dismal flutes; and lonely in the company of lovers who have sinned for love and have been damned for their sin to remember forever the joy of love's delight, Paolo and Francesca embrace in pangs and torment. But Tschaikowsky believed that he had lived his best years; his hand faltered. The music twists and tumbles, witless in anguish. Hell is peopled with platitudes. The cruel critic was right. The piece marks the first faltering of Tschaikowsky's genius, and for this reason, it is not often played...
Rome in the springtime. Tito Beppi of the Teatro Paradiso seeks the aid of the specialist Gambella, to cure the fits of terrible anguish and tears that torment him. In the waiting room he meets Luigi Ravelli, the roisterer and squire of dames, who has come to be treated, not for tears, but uncontrollable and ghastly laughter. Sorrowfully Tito tells his story to Gambella and is advised to go and see "Flik", the mountebank of the Paradiso, and laugh again. "But I am Flik!" Attracted by the strange opposites of their disease, Flik and Ravelli are becoming friendly, when Simonetta...
...love story draws to a close, but no longer does he seek surcease in death and oblivion. Originally we saw him in his lodgings, alone with his tragedy, going through his paces, leering at himself in a circle of mirrors, cackling in hideous laughter, unable longer to endure his torment, he stabs himself...
...author may be allowed to delve into the realms of indecency as far as is necessary to portray the whole truth of his picture. But Mr. Sergel harps on this theme and its attendant circumstances for 176 pages--and does not reach the truth even then. His glut of torment is avowedly only to set the stage and fix the characters in their primary position, but even with this achieved he tells but half the story...
...American ship, was unloaded and reloaded with supplies for the refugees in eighteen hours. It was the first relief to reach Yokohama, where thousands of refugees were rescued. These people, mostly Chinese, had lived more than four days without food or water, suffering all the while indescribable physical torment from their wounds. In an attempt to allay in some measure the pain, they bathed themselves in the salt water, which only served to torture them more...