Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousand clocks, paced by thousands of hard-hatted men, their ears attuned, their hands ready at buttons, keys, switches, knobs, cranks and valves, their eyes darting from tube to dial, their pulses shooting over the unhurried step of time. And then the fire, the roar, the chorus of triumphant cries...
This showed especially in the "Egmont" Overture, a piece built upon tensions and climaxes which were just not there. But even crueller were passages in the second and last movement of the Symphony, which build to powerful, triumphant counter-rhythms that were simply diluted away. The majestic main theme of the finale never reached a logical fulfillment. The examples go on and on; always the inevitability of Beethoven's structure was underplayed or destroyed...
...whatever it does, the News can never return to the idealism of the old Fortnightly, which once undertook a campaign to make all the Radcliffe girls learn all the Radcliffe songs, some of which encourage the Annex athletes to come home "triumphant...
...impressive 35,000 copies. The Union, a handsomely turned-out companion album, may lack the other record's lost-cause fascination, and its concluding "hip-hip-hooray" cannot compete with the doomed defiance of The Confederacy's Rebel-yell finale. But The Union's alternately triumphant and melancholy Civil War music, again grouped by Conductor-Composer Richard Bales, stirs gallant ghosts and makes fine listening. The Grand Army starts off to war with a rousing quickstep, soon changes its tune to fit a war for which-as Historian Bruce Catton points out in an album essay-hardly...
...King Norodom Sihanouk has long been the most unpredictable political tumbler in Southeast Asia. At the Geneva Conference on Indo-China four years ago, Sihanouk's delegation won Western cheers with its courageous stand against Communist attempts to take Cambodia by negotiation. Later Sihanouk switched to "neutrality," made triumphant tours of Red China and the Soviet Union, at home coupled on-again-off-again praise for the Communists with equally erratic pats and cuffs for the West...