Word: clashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the opposing business methods clash they are amusing, but when the picture tries to reconcile them, showing that everyone is really a brick beneath a seemingly loathsome exterior, the result is dreary. In one especially painful scene, Paul Douglas as the mogul, is almost seduced from the business virtues of ruthless efficiency and unbridled avarice that the British evidently find peculiarly American. When a gentle Scottish lass tells him about the beauties of indolence, the mogul seems about to chuck a princely fortune and sign aboard the Scots boat as cabin...
Four House contests in three sports are set for this afternoon. Winthrop will meet Leverett in football and touch football, Dudley will face Adams, and Eliot will clash with Lowell in soccer...
Attlee would prefer to see a China that feels in a position to be a little aloof from Russia. A Communist China which regards itself as the equal of Russia and which may feel that its interests clash with those of Russia in Asia is a better prospect for the Western world than a China which is made to feel that it must lean on Russia or face the prospect of having enemies on both flanks...
...presidents, remembering their clash on the matter of loyalty oaths with Burns' predecessor on the Committee, accepted the offer...
...anticlimactic, but Berlioz achieves perhaps his greatest effects in the quieter passages that grip the heart after all the thunder. The superb Sanctus calls for a tenor solo in which, by a dazzling piece of orchestration, the single, defenseless human voice is set off against the relentless clash of cymbals; and in the sweet, concluding Agnus Dei, there are chilling traces of jagged pagan rhythms (later used by Stravinsky). Conductor Munch tenderly and forcefully drove toward the end, spinning out the Amen with a loving final touch. A cathedral hush hung beneath the bare steel rafters; then the crowd leaped...