Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this age of Hollywood blood-and-thunder war movies, all of which preach some sort of a hackneyed message, there is nothing more refreshing than to see a brilliant war film like the twelve year-old "Grand Illusion." Starring Erich von Stroheim and Jean Gabin, this old-French epic concerns the fate of a group of French prisoners in Germany during the first World...
...third was "El Rancho," a convertible painted "in the singing thunder of a Mexican Dawn" (brown), and soon to be driven by Cadillac Boss John F. Gordon on his Arizona ranch. It has kip-side suede trim, antiqued silver hardware, steer-head escutcheons on the doorsills, and saddle-stitched pistol holsters on the doors. The fourth "sybaritic specimen" was a sedan in "Caribbean Day Break" (green), which would go to some other G.M. executive...
Beethoven: Symphony No. I (the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). When Beethoven wrote his first symphony at 29, he was beginning to shake loose the shackles of Haydn and Mozart, to hurl thunder on his own. Conductor Walter doesn't miss a clap-or any of the symphony's considerable charm. Recording: good...
...Baltimore is "the woman I love"; here, as the dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flame above Lakehurst, N.J., the announcer's gasp, "It's terrible . . . it's terrible! . . ." There are the soothing phrases of Neville Chamberlain, returned from Munich; the hysterical scream of Hitler, punctuated by the thunder of his Storm Troopers' "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!"; the uninflected, almost casual voice of Joseph Stalin promising death to the invading Nazis, and the stentorian challenge of Churchill, rallying his little island against a continent...
...certainly wasn't De Sabata's first program that lured the critics. There was only one new work, a viciously dissonant and twisting symphonic poem, Marinaresca e Baccanale, by a little known Italian contemporary named Giorgio Federico Ghedini. The others-Berlioz' blood & thunder Roman Carnival Overture, Franck's D Minor Symphony and Ravel's Bolero-were the kind of overly familiar music that delights most audiences and drugs most critics...