Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of the Student Union that it has decided to repeat the method used so successfully last year. Last April, a well-attended meeting was held in Sanders Theatre, addressed by Professor Prall and a leader of the English youth movement. In every way the meeting was a welcome contrast to the peace strikes sponsored in previous years by advocates of the olive branch at Harvard. It was orderly, calm, and drenched in the peaceful atmosphere most conducive to a protest for peace. On the other hand, the peace strikes of other years had been rendered futile by the ridicule...
...members of the commission finally signed the report, including Robin Hood, secretary-treasurer of the National Co-Operative Council. In contrast to most of his fellow members, Robin Hood was bearish on the future of U. S. coops, pointing out that European co-ops flourished because they satisfied basic economic needs. Concluded he: "It may thus be seen that the chief factors accounting for the remarkable development of consumer co-operation in Europe are: 1) exceedingly inefficient retail distribution ... 2) class loyalty to their own institutions given by repressed industrial workers, who in Europe are not as migratory and mobile...
...times is once more captured and the reader can more easily understand the forces at work to create such a reign of terror. The hatred and intolerance of the straight-laced but hypocritical Puritans with their cast iron moral codes and their frigid attitude is set in striking contrast with the loyalty, the courage, and the affection of their brothers. The narrowness and prejudice of the Puritan mind is shown in a psychological light which reflects also on the more human members of the Salem colony...
...Koussevitzky has chosen Haydn's "Surprise Symphony" in G major to open the concerts in town this weekend. Following this with a decided contrast is the new Third Symphony of Nicolai Berezowsky. Mr. Berezowsky, who was born in Russia but has lived in the United States for several years, will conduct the work...
...they have had the good sense to avoid deliberate burlesquing, and have let the play burlesque itself. The contrast of the serious treatment (at least fairly serious treatment) with the ludicrous pathos of the melodrama, is undoubtedly the funniest effect that could be obtained from the material. Much of the credit for this restraint is due to director Howard Mumford Jones, the well-known novel man. He has, however, let none of the grandiloquence escape...