Word: tumult
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...cutlets, Hans! . . . Two omelettes! . . . Four cod, lover boy! Ye canna be a slow coach here!" Waitresses scream, cooks curse, knives flash, fat crackles, urns squeal, sweat spews out of every pore and food leaps furiously from pot to plate as though it were alive. Faster the pace, wilder the tumult. Like a runaway reactor, like a Beethoven rising to full frenzy the great kitchen gathers itself and surges, thunders, mindlessly explodes in a tremendous climax of comestibles...
...While tumult and hubbub reigned in U.A.W. councils, Detroit last week wound up its new model offerings with the introduction of the 1962 Buicks. As standard equipment, the compact Special has a new (for the U.S. auto industry) 135 h.p., cast-iron V-6 engine, which replaces the more expensive aluminum V-8 and cuts $100 off last season's list prices. In styling, both the compact and standard Buicks are little changed, although the standard Buick's extra inch in width and two to four in length lend it a lower, more massive look...
...beyond Brazil's tumult, the British freighter Uruguay Star churned placidly across the Atlantic, carrying ex-President Janio Quadros far away from the nation he impulsively left divided. Just ten months ago, at 43 (four months older than Jack Kennedy), Quadros had been elected president by the largest vote in Brazil's history. He set out on a bold program-financial austerity at home, an adventuresome neutralism abroad. Even though he played up to Moscow, and embraced Castro, the U.S. took a chance on him, offered to provide $943 million in aid. Similarly...
Less expensive are The Seven (a haven for crew cuts and madras skirts at the base of Beacon Hill); the Rathskeller (beer, tumult, and cameraderie on Commonwealth Avenue); the go-it-alone joints along Washington St., notably the Palace (where you can bring a date during the week and emerge unscathed), the Novelty Bar, and the Golden Nugget...
Last week's performance admirably underlined all the sharp and sudden contrasts: the swirling turbulence of the strings, portraying tumult and strife, giving way to the stately chorus of trombones marking the prince's intervention; the remarkably effective muted chanting of the chorus in "Juliet's Funeral Procession," followed after "Juliet's Awakening" by a shattering explosion of the orchestra in flamboyantly strutting rhythms. Throughout, Conductor Wallenstein managed to catch the remarkable range of inflections that Berlioz alone seemed to hear in an orchestra...