Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known that the effect of the Mahler was immense. It is impossible to say whether this was a good or bad performance of the Symphony, as it has not been played often enough to provide a basis of comparison. But it was certainly an interesting, a spectacular, a vivid performance. The music supposedly concerns in the first movement, a man's death, in the second and third, various reflections about his life, in the fourth, a search for the primal light, and in the fifth, the day of judgment. You would never guess this, however, unless you were a program...
...soon clear also that Peck was no carbon copy, but a distinct and engaging new personality. He has a face which Mary Morris of PM has aptly described as "early American." It can, of course, be dangerous to look enough like Abraham Lincoln to suffer by comparison or to seem to be plagiarizing. At certain unfortunate moments Peck looks merely like a pretty Lincoln; but he never looks like a silly one, a road-show impersonator, or a sandwich man for the Republican Party...
...shallows, may be one of the brightest things moving in the world. Raintree County is a historical novel of Indiana by an Indiana boy; it is also a philosophical novel (a rare thing in U.S. fiction), and a studied work of art that is striking enough to court comparison, in method at least, with the Ulysses of James Joyce...
...good-looking ballet, reaching the peak of his imagination in the storm scene and the finale, a would-be sacrifice of Idamantes in the temple. Leo Van Witsen's costumes were also outstanding, and the sum of the production so far superior to anything at the Metropolitan that comparison is impossible--a fact all the more astonishing because of the brief history of the Opera Theatre and its lack of a permanent home...
...movies richest in spirit and vitality came from Italy. By comparison, even the best British films were academic and genteel (Britain's best was, significantly, an adaptation of a literary classic). French films in general were ultra-civilized but low in vigor. Russia had all but ceased to exist as a source of movie interest, except to Russophiles; Germany was just beginning to stir...