Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amour. In comparison to Germany last week pre-Christmas France was paradise. Oysters, caviar, foie gras, turkey, geese or chicken, wines and liquor were all abundant and Premier Edouard...
...long ago wrote What Price Glory? and Saturday's Children has gradually given way to a fuzzy cosmos-gazer. Anderson is the most flatulent and pretentious of U. S. dramatists because he seldom does justice to his grandiose conceptions. The verse of Key Largo will not stand comparison with such contemporary dramatic poetry as T. S. Eliot's or Archibald MacLeish's. So little feeling, indeed, has Anderson for fit words that his people talk like stilted schoolmasters as well as windy poets : a businessman, for example, refers to gangsters as "banditti." Worst of all, Anderson cannot...
...recently heard an unfavorable criticism of the Symphony of Psalms, because the details of the treatment of the text--the setting of the individual words--was considered inferior to that in the works of Byrd. This sort of comparison is useless as a way of determining the musical value of either type of composition, for in the orchestral-choral concert work, the details of fitting the individual words and phrases to the musical lines is secondary to the general movement of the whole composition. In the small church piece, on the other hand, the subtle enhancement of the phonetic...
Except by comparison with its past records and its huge preferred dividend requirements, Curtis did not do badly in Depression or Recovery. But for 1938 Curtis was able to report a net of only $1,279,163, declared only $1.50 for the year on its preferred. For the first nine months of this year...
...Strawinsky influence" is one of the most talked about aspects of modern music. It is so important that an analysis of the style of a contemporary composer more often than not contains some comparison with the style of Strawinsky...