Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outstanding event of the concert season so far, revealed its composer in a new and very different light. No impressionist miniature, the Mass of Life required the booming efforts of a gigantic chorus, four solo singers and a full symphony orchestra, moved tellingly from climax to climax, invited comparison with musical epics of such romantic symphonists as Brahms and Bruckner...
...know that the Emperor is hard and uncompromising not so much because of his thundering orations as because of the fact that Marie is so tender and generous in comparison. We know that he was ambitious, determined, and belligerent, not so much because he marches to and fro with his jaw protruding and his brow wrinkled in a perpetual scowl, as because Marie is by comparison so very peace-loving and kind. Mr. Boyer is the star because it is the character of Napoleon which is the center of interest; but it is the acting of Miss Garbo which makes...
Like her parents' Rise of American Civilization, like her husband's History of Militarism, Miriam Beard's book ends inconclusively. The composite businessman who emerges from its cluster of facts is a puzzling figure. Not a severe critic, the author points out that in comparison with feudal lords and warriors, businessmen have been humane. They have robbed widows & orphans and sold rotten ships to their governments from the Punic to the Civil War, but they have not burned rival salesmen at the stake. A maniac might get to be a monarch, she says, but he could never...
...apeman, Pithecanthropus erectus. Another early type found in Java, Homo soloensis, shows affinities with the Neanderthalers of Europe and the Rhodesian men of Africa. The fragmentary skull of a child, christened Homo modjokertensis, appeared to be in extremely ancient ground, but its features were too undeveloped for exact anatomical comparison. Two years ago primitive tools were found in Java, including points, scrapers, cores, and hand-axes typical of Old Stone Age cultures elsewhere but never before found east of Madras in India...
...booksellers' collection of 200 volumes contained many books of only immediate interest, a few which had very little of that. Nor did its seven detective stories seem destined to be the nucleus of a permanent collection. The fiction, which looked weak in comparison with the biography and works of history, included Gone With the Wind and Of Time and the River, but it also numbered such minor works of doubtful durability as Fannie Hurst's We Are Ten and Robert Nathan's Enchanted Voyage. But with works of the stature of Douglas Southall Freeman...