Word: darknesse
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Ehrgott, the eighth of his family who has served in Custer's old cavalry regiment, the ambush-conscious U.S. 7th, pointed out through his interpreter that darkness was excellent cover, and that if you deployed properly ambushes did not happen.
For Shostakovich it was a second fiery purification. In 1936, his clangorous Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk offended Stalin's ever-pricked ears, and the Pravda denunciation that followed kept Shostakovich under a cloud for five years. But this time the guilty composers did not need to suffer so prolonged...
"I do dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever-changing, ever-dying, there is, underlying all that change, a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates. That informing power or spirit is God. . . . I see it as purely benevolent, for I...
The good friend, disciple and political heir of Gandhi, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, spoke to the nation on the radio, in quivering voice: "Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere."
Scuffling broke out and then some cool-headed peacemaker switched off the lights. After a few seconds of total darkness, cigarette lighters flashed like fireflies on a summer night. And that was enough for one day.