Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This contrast, between impassioned declarations that Germany is indivisible and the day to day acknowledgment that it is already divided, is the most striking paradox in Germany today...
...band marched back and forth, playing sometimes in quick march tempo, at others majestically slowly. By contrast, the pipers shook the crowd with their music's wild beauty. It was the fascinating difference between palace panoply and hillside rebel yells. The pipers played a few marches and accompanied eight regimental dancers in a slow fling and a rapid, triumphant reel. After some concert pieces (Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave, Arditi's // Bacio, etc.) indifferently done by the band, the dancers placed claymores in the form of a St. Andrew's cross on the floor for the warlike...
Thereafter, all the decorative oddities, all the artificial-comedy attitudes of The Chalk Garden prove a legitimate contrast and offset to a certain muted reality. Not without cost has the companion achieved a green thumb for people as well as plants, where the other characters all show gloved or clammy hands; not without reason has she been able to make things grow in a garden built on chalk...
Playwright Bagnold's sidelong, elegantly savage play fortunately gets the production it altogether requires. Gladys Cooper as the booming, inwardly empty dowager and Siobhan McKenna as the quiet, inwardly burning companion create a brilliant contrast and head a talented cast. Though doing justice to the play's darker moments, the cast keeps it throughout an engrossing entertainment...
This Williams goal came on a fast break after the Crimson had maintained a rather steady attack through most of the first half. A slight let-down followed the marker, but generally yesterday's game provided a sharp contrast to the contests against M.I.T. and Penn last week...