The year had a stormy beginning when, on Jan . 14 , 1969about 40 students organized by the group Students for a Democratic Society – or SDS – disrupted a Board of Trustees meeting at the Faculty Club.
If you are reading this from the stormy beginning days, hang in there.
The stormy evening began with roughly 70 people in attendance, but dwindled to about 17 — two of whom were earnestly knitting — by the time the Hadid project architect, Bozana Komljenovic, took the podium.
The death toll since the stormy weather began just before Christmas increased to eight after an elderly cyclist fell as he tried to make his way through floodwater in the village of Wytham, near Oxford, at noon Wednesday.
So as my stormy emotions began to settle, I decided to play that song that I had opportunely queued on my laptop.
"It was a dark and stormy night," begins Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel "Paul Clifford," which goes on to invoke torrential rain, gusting wind, guttering lamplight, and rattling rooftops: weather as plot, setting, star, and supporting cast of what is, by broad consensus, the worst sentence in the history of English literature.
The accident adds new drama to the painting's stormy history, which began when Napoleon ordered the Veronese brought to France as war booty.
The relationship grew even stormier when they began working together in their own company.
Brothers Duane and Gregg Allman began performing "Stormy Monday" with their early group, the Allman Joys, and it later became part of the Allman Brothers Band's repertoire.
Phrases like "strength-filled life-joy," and the emphasis on stormy discipline, do begin to smack of Nazi slogans.
