Word: angelically
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...score was by an old hand at setting Stein to song, Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, who wrote the music for Gertrude's Four Saints in Three Acts. Since the business on stage (involving among others Ulysses S. Grant, Thaddeus Stevens, Daniel Webster and an angel) was pretty complicated, Thomson kept his music harmonically simple, rarely dissonant and sometimes hymnlike, and his adroit handling of the voices added some new inflections to Steinese...
...Kracauer's is a big, impressive, careful piece of work. The book will appeal most to those who remember such German films as The Last Laugh, Variety, The Blue Angel, The Beggars' Opera-some of the most glamorous and exciting movies of their time. But Dr. Kracauer's prose is pretty heavy; and his argument, though persuasive, is not always proved with scientific finality. Like some other psyche-interpreters-professional and amateur-he tends to overinterpret. It is interesting to speculate on what the same sort of intense look at Hollywood films would tell the doctor about...
...Marshall Field backed out? He had his hands full, trying to make a go of his Chicago Sun and New York PM. He would still be a stockholder, he said, though not the angel, of USA. Said Field: Cousins has "an excellent, very attractive dummy. I have no criticism on that score at all. Frankly it just doesn't seem to be the right time. ... As matters stand, I already have enough things...
...wrote Historian Edward Gibbon, "the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins. . . . Their confidence was founded on the prophecy of an enthusiast or an impostor . . . that an angel would descend from heaven with a sword in his hand, and would deliver the empire...
...angel did not appear. Moslems swept the church of its worshippers and stripped it of its movable riches; it was gutted of its Christian treasures and converted into a mosque. Byzantium crumbled to a few fragments like those at Baltimore and became a place for poets to dream about...