Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then 37, and had written 38 operas. But he never wrote another one. His nerves shaken from overwork, he wrote a friend that "music needs freshness . . . I am conscious of nothing but lassitude and crabbedness." He composed little, settled down in Paris to grow fat from his well-stocked wine cellar and his imported bolognas. When friends chided him for being lazy, Rossini replied: "I always had a passion for idleness...
...wealth who becomes a revolutionist. His inability to cope with the problems of business drove him to search for a new career; his increased taxes, which he believed were greater than any paid in England, gave him a sense of personal grievance; his ability to pay for wine and fireworks for his supporters made him popular; his vanity and his love of display made him malleable in the hands of politicians; his property helped to make the revolution seem respectable, and his essential conservatism made him a valuable check against the radicals...
...sacredness of law, will find it hard to stomach the next sentence: 'How could I obstruct their genuine desire for Christ the Lord by mere formal objections from Canon Law? We sang our old appropriate hymns. I consecrated the piece of hard and coarse Russian bread and the wine . . . Over 300 Catholics and 80 Evangelical Christians came to the Sacred Banquet. The speaker of the Lutherans thanked me, his voiced drowned in tears of joy. He was a student for the ministry from Eisenach. They would all go back one day and witness that through a Catholic priest...
...prohibition reiterated by the Vatican only last month (TIME, July 5). † Of Christ in the consecrated bread and wine of Holy Communion...
...what the Germans call a Schunkelwalzer, the kind of song to sing while buoyed up on Rhine wine, with a fraulein on either side, swaying to the music. It first turned up at the Cologne Carnival in 1935, called Du Kannst Nicht Treu Sein. Too brassy for smart dance orchestras (which have always stuck more to stickier tunes like Lili Marleen), village orchestras and brass bands blared it out, with a strong pair of lungs on the trumpet and a heavy hand on the drum. By the time the Germans invaded Poland, even the barrel organs had given...