Word: complements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novelty was provided by a greatly expanded orchestra, including many new faces, and blessed with a huge and excellent string section. The strings found a deserved complement in the virtuosic wind group which pulled off Stravinsky's exacting Symphonies for Wind Instruments with breath-taking precision and intonation. Nor did Mr. Senturia let technical concerns overshadow the equally crucial matters of vitality and awareness which should be the major strengths of any good amateur ensemble...
Hampered by a slew of early season injuries, the Indians had their first string backfield complement intact for the first time this year against Boston College last week. With Gundy and Crouthamel in action, the Big Green scored more points then than it had managed in its three previous games...
...than merely academic matters. As Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity has observed, "The distinction between right and wrong is surely no less important than that between true and false." Professor Demos also points out that, far from being contradictory, the two fields complement one another: "Intellectual achievement is normally not possible without moral character...
...team's record now stands at three wins and a tie, with a 1-0 slate in the Ivy League. If the team can find a dangerous scorer to complement its accurate passing game and strong defense, it will be rough to reckon with...
Director Jules Dassin relentlessly pursues this point. He has artfully brought to the screen Nikos Kazantzakis's novel of the triple meeting of the Church, the Turks and belief. Each of these elements is made to complement the others. The Agha is not portrayed as a shallow reproduction of Pilate, but as a ruler involved in protecting his 1921 interests. The disciples' reluctance to follow is more than biblical, it is equally motivated by their fear of leaving their wives and their pubs...