But while the performance had extraordinary historical resonance, the impetus behind Sarah Frankcom's production and Peake's reading was to make this a poem for today.
But if inequality has fuelled the demand for credit – whether through mortgages or payday loans – it has also helped drive the supply of credit and thus added further impetus to the creation of an extraordinary financial system biased to lend to property and not to enterprise.
'Stan' merely speeded up the process, and suddenly she was shifting albums at an extraordinary rate: 7m to date, with no signs of the impetus slowing.
In terms of architecture especially the terrible problem with architecture in England is that we have such an extraordinary inheritance of fine buildings from the past that there has been little impetus to try new things.
The story is extraordinary — and so is the story of its production, as told in Matthew Bernstein's biography of its producer, Walter Wanger, who gave the project its impetus.
We needed some fresh impetus.
What would be the impetus?
