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Word: banally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given me more publicity than amusement. The first, in its obvious connection with the Business School number of the Lampoon, seemed to be apropros and somewhat funny. I can take a joke. But this last, lacking both humor and originality, being neither relevant nor in good taste, is so banal as to be scarcely credible. Really the CRIMSON sleuths should expose these scurrilous scribes. I feel sure that they are the same individuals who steal the books from Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Justifiable Complaint | 3/4/1925 | See Source »

...Music. Banal, melodious cantilenas, shreds of the wild echoes Verdi set flying?melody that has been shut up from the air until, to modern taste, it has become stiff, flaky, like stale candy. In the eight years that intervened between Giovanni Gallurese and L'Amore del Tre Re, Montemezzi must have worked hard, critics decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Opera | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...excellent. The impression left was much the same as when that subtle artist, Eva Gauthier, included in one of her programs of songs a group of jazz pieces (TIME, Nov. 12). The best of jazz has original and splendid rhythm and instrumentation, but the stalest and most banal of melody and harmony. The harmony adapts a few moderately recent quirks to the use of startling the popular ear. The themes used seem the most incredible bathos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Serious Jazz | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

...Utterly banal in theme and rather juvenile in treatment, the play succeeds moderately as amusement, largely due to the persuasive personality of the star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 28, 1924 | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

...Harvard Dramatic Club a position of definite standing in the American theatrical world. If the plays selected up to date are open to the criticism of appealing more to an audience of a distinctly intellectual cast, they have at least most effectively preserved the club from falling into the banal outworn comedy type of organization so common in other universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST NIGHT | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

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