Word: apollonian
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...gnashing of teeth, sackcloth and ashes of the historical Jeremiah, but for the most part the rhapsodic wildness of the prophet does not break through the fabric of ritualistic lament. Emotion breaks through more strongly in a far more conventional piece, however, the Elegy of Dr. Arne, from the Apollonian Harmony of 1790. A memorial tribute to a friend, the Elegy was written to a pastoral poem by John Gay, which rocks with neo-classic artificialities. Yet despite the artificialities in the poem, and occasional artificialities in the music, the simplicity and sincerity of feeling rise as a whole above...
...with ribbons. Under each was a woman's name, an address. Five insets adorned the board, four containing tin-types of handsome human females coifed and prinked as was the fashion 35 years ago. The fifth inset, placed in the midst of the collection, showed a young man of Apollonian mien?crisp, curly hair, square forehead, forceful jaw, roguish eye. That was the way one J. Roy Tucker, now a slightly bald, portly oil man of 55, looked in his college days. Mr. Tucker was not reticent with the newsgatherer...
...University team Mason will take Apollonian's place at fullback, as the latter received a bone bruise on his leg in the scrimmage of last Monday, which will probably keep him out of the game for two weeks or more. On the ends it is expected that all of the following five men will be played; Burnham, Kennard, Macdonald, Miller, and Orr. Warren will start the game at right tackle, but will later be replaced by Peirce. Hall will probably play the whole game at quarterback, and Lockwood at right half. The teams will line-up as follows: HARVARD. BATES...