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Father Finn attributes his transcendent choral effects to the cajoling rather than the browbeating of his talent. His rehearsals are continuously good-humored. He is a genius at making singers relax. For martinet choirmasters Father Finn has nothing but contempt. Writes he, in his effulgent Hibernian prose: "Sometimes [these conductors] seem content to fabricate their figures in ice, hankering to muse in temperatures below zero, phrasing frozen notations with icicle-batons. From the arctics and antarctics which they explore, they bring a refrigeration that benumbs artistic sensibilities. Many an auditorium is converted into a 'thrilling region of thick-ribbed...
...authority to commit the U.S. to war, but he managed discreetly to suggest that his country might change its isolationist mind if a Nazi victory seemed imminent. The portraiture in Welles's European travelogue rings clear and true. The late Count Ciano is shown boldly expressing his contempt for German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and his antagonism toward Hitler. Mussolini astonished Welles by seeming inert, ponderous and static. His close-cropped hair was snow white. In repose, his face fell in rolls of flesh. When the Duce talked, he kept his eyes shut save for moments when he remembered...
From the start London knew the robot bomb for what it was-a new weapon of terrible power. It was never something to be shrugged off with British humor and contempt for the bloody Nazis. It was a weapon which struck again & again & again, 18 hours at a stretch. Even its sound-effects were potent: a throaty roar, then a sudden silence when the jet motor stopped and the bomb dived; then the blast. It kept thousands of Londoners in deep shelters. It drove other thousands to the country. It kept thousands, at work aboveground, in a state of sustained...
...Russian commanders in Botosani and Dorohoi knew little and cared less about civilian administration. Their job: to safeguard their Army, provide supplies and billets. Their chief desire: to get back to the front with their units. Their reaction: Communist contempt for "capitalist inefficiency and selfishness...
...instructor, with a lieutenant colonel's crown-and-pip on his shoulders and an insufferable habit of talking down to his classes. But he was then what he is now, a completely dedicated professional, soldier, with a superb sense of the big things of war, and an utter contempt for the small...