Word: triumphalism
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...this quiet level Tom Dewey had opened his campaign. As a triumphal trip it bore not the slightest resemblance to Wendell Willkie's 1940 beginnings, when voters packed the sidewalks and jammed arenas to hear the big, attractive, tousled, hoarse candidate shout his gospel. Dewey got small crowds, few cheers, and in all probably shook no more than 7,500 hands on the whole trip. But as he returned to Pawling this week, Tom Dewey knew that it was still August. Between now and the last week of October lay much planning, much hard work...
...faded breeches shrank up his legs. His shirt was ragged. His steely eyes were sunken with fatigue. But his tours among the starved, tattered, forgotten men of Bataan were almost triumphal. They cheered him on the field. Behind his back they reverently called him "Old Skinny...
...Even music-which usually drowns moving pictures in sugar-adds greatly to this one. The sudden naïve, triumphal avalanche of scales which opens the finale of Tschaikovsky's Fourth Symphony-used here at the moment when the tide turns against the Germans at Stalingrad -is an astute and thrilling use of cinemusic...
...Impresario Salmaggi gives his public its money's worth. His 28-piece orchestra drones out Verdi's melodies like possessed hurdy-gurdies. His tenors and sopranos bellow lustily. His triumphal scenes contain not only singers and ballet dancers but live donkeys and horses, sometimes elephants and camels. In a fit of showmanship a few years ago he signed up Jack Johnson, Negro heavyweight emeritus, chained him to an Egyptian chariot, plastered Manhattan with billboards advertising "Jack Johnson...
...hocus pocus salutem" at the beginning, to the imitation of a History I professor who declared at the end, that "the chaos to which we are now subjected is like the screechings and scratching of a great orchestra, which is in reality but tuning up to play a great triumphal march-the Overture in Africa-and the Finale in Berlin...