Word: charming
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best piece of prose in the number is the "The Light-House Keeper's Story." It is a plain, unvarnished tale of the sea, with little plot. The chief charm of this brief story lies in its smoothness of diction and naturalness of sentiment. It is less ambitious than either of the others of the author's contributions to the Advocate, but it is characterized by the same simplicity of style...
...College Kodaks" are by no means scintillating, although the pen-picture of the Holworthy man's High School girl, "fancy-free in modern-maiden meditation of geometry and Cicero" has a certain charm of expression...
...view of the rather heavy ending of the concert, it was perhaps wise to put in the light and charming air from Bach's Suite in D, although it made the programme somewhat too long. In the air Mr. Kneisel played the solo violin with wonderful charm and grace, receiving almost or quite as much applause as the solo pianist. The last piece was Brahms' Second Symphony, in D. which is less labored and fatiguing than the other symphonies of this composer. The playing of the orchestra in the symphony was very different from what it had been...
...charm which these complete units of musical texture called periods or phrases may possess, is one of the most remarkable facts of music. Analogies from other departments of art suggest that their unity itself may be a secret of their beauty; a melody or a complete harmonic sequence impresses us as a growth from a germ of musical form...
LOST.- A square watch charm with a bird inlaid in pearl on one side. Finder please return to CRIMSON office...