Word: violent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flat Stomach. When Bostonians heard Munch conduct their orchestra on his 1946 visit, his music had shocked some. It seemed more violent and more rushed, particularly in the allegro movements of Beethoven symphonies. But one man was not at all surprised when Munch was asked to succeed Koussy. The New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson had heard Munch conduct 15 years before in Paris and had prophesied that he would eventually lead the Boston. Why? Says Critic Thomson: "He was a natural Boston conductor, flat-stomached and grey-haired, and he created hysteria, particularly in the female over...
...from China. Until the opening of the Las Huelgas sarcophagi, Spanish historians had not been absolutely sure whether Enrique I of Castile died from a blow on the head at Palencia in 1217, or from natural causes. Enrique's skull, found in the tomb, confirmed the theory of violent death; it also showed what archeologists interpreted as advanced techniques of trepanation, demonstrating a medieval knowledge of surgery hitherto unsuspected...
President-elect Elmer Henderson sounded the war cry: "Let's face our battle of Armageddon . . . No other profession, in . . . this country, has been brought under such violent attack by those ambitious for political power over...
PROVIDENCE, Dec. 18--Harvard almost won that big Ivy League victory here tonight, but unfortunately for Coach John Chase's skaters, history repeated itself. At 4:45 of a violent sudden-death overtime period, Warren Priestley scored the winning goal for Brown that whipped the previously-undefeated Crimson...
White Heat. James Cagney returns to crime in a violent gangster melodrama with psychiatric trimmings (TIME, Sept...