Word: vehemently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thompson expressed vehement disapproval of the imitation of contemporary masters. "Nothing strikes me as more futile than to become a little Stravinsky or a little Bartok. I have tried, just as Stravinsky and Bartok have done, to make a purely personal synthesis of the musical teachings of the past." Thompson is no conservative, however. He says quite firmly that, "Modern music and, specifically, atonal composition seems to me to be a logical development from the experimentation of Wagner and Strauss. After all there are many passages in Wagner where there is extended tonal ambiguity. From this, it is just...
...experiment in treating Kirkland House diners to music during last Friday evening's meal met with vehement and mixed reaction from House residents polled at a music-less dinner last night. The prandial serenade, emanating from three strategically placed, borrowed speakers, was the fruit of an idea born to the Kirkland House Committee last fall...
...fill our hearts with cries and vehement...
Frederic Babcock, editor of the Chicago Tribune's Magazine of Books, proclaimed: "Lolita is pornography, and we do not plan to review it." Other abstainers: the Christian Science Monitor and the Baltimore Sunpapers. But most publications did brace themselves to review the book, and attacks were vehement. The Providence Journal was tempted, but resisted: "After wading along with a kind of fascinated horror through 140,000 words, most readers will probably become bored . . . at times downright sickened . . ." The New York World Telegram's Leslie Hanscom fumed that "there were moments . . . when my whole instinct was to land...
...indicted for the act are all vehement anti-Semites. These five are local fanatics backed by an Arlington, Virginia printer who publishes reams of hate literature under the name of the National Committee to Free America From Jewish Domination...