Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fields what Van Wyck Brooks did for New England letters. No one has written a comparable flowering of American industry, or of American military or naval life. It may be that such works will never be written, that the American achievement in other spheres has been too diversified and chaotic, its conflicts too bitter, its heroes too narrow...
...constant stream of visitors makes the editorial office pleasantly chaotic. On Saturdays the staff, and any friends who happen by, adjourn to an Italian restaurant for a long lunch. Says Marion Strobel: "Then we all dangle our feet in Lake Michigan and otherwise behave like poets...
Compared to the neat way American record companies have produced Mozart symphonies and Beethoven quartets in a series of performances by the recognized authorities in those fields, the treatment of Romantic piano music has been little short of chaotic. In this extraordinarily rich and varied field, there has been no planning, no skillful choice of works to be recorded, and little utilization of the pianists...
...John soon found that the brown girl was not what he was looking for, and journeyed on. At last, after many adventures, John confronted the "aged, appalling . . . crumbling and chaotic" face of Death itself...
...traces the gradual destruction of two boys of the Roman streets, twelve-year-old Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni) and his close friend, 14-year-old Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi). They are attractive and resourceful children, at first appearance, living the anarchic, hand-to-mouth life of most of Italy during the chaotic period between the Italian and German surrenders. Then they become front men for Giuseppe's older brother, in a small-time black market deal. They are caught and locked up for questioning. If they had informed on their elders promptly, they would probably have been released; but courage...