Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York sky-scrapers ranging from the classic Gothic of the Woolworth Building, to the ultra modern emphasis upon the vertical line as exemplified in the soaring tiers of windows, and strips of concrete of the Daily News Building. The graduated indents of the older Chanin Building are in sharp contrast to the sheer lift of the new Empire State Building. showing that transition is taking place rapidly...
...short-range intelligence.' I call that a startling and significant sentence. The business mind is thus essentially the mind of the routineer, the darkness of which is from time to time illumined by striking a match, and Harvard University is obligated to such training. I should like to contrast Whitehead's deadly sentence with a sentence spoken by Wilhelm von Humboldt: 'The thing is not to let the scholars and universities go on in a drowsy and impotent routine. The thing is to raise the culture of the nation ever higher and higher by their means...
...been meditating without result for the last six months. The swimming pool, a relic of Gold Coast days, and Adams' pride, has been modernized, and is available throughout the College year. Weekly "long table" dinners on Thursdays provide a steady stream of speakers, who have been appreciated. In contrast to the practice at certain less enterprising Houses, the Associates, a goodly list, are invited and attend. Sunday evenings a renovated Apthorp House, lined with every known book on American diplomacy, becomes the center for informal discussions of international relations. The library, a good average House library of six-thousand volumes...
...This contrast points to the fundamental faults in both systems. The dependence of the various units of the House Plan prevents any individuality in them as educational institutions. But the experimental colleges may be so independent that effective cooperation will be blocked. The esprit de corps and the autonomous faculty may make a student in a particular college forege the benefits of sitting under an outstanding teacher in another college. The destiny of the two systems, the House Plan, and of the experimental colleges of the future, would seem to lead them to a common ground, where the House Plan...
...thesis, except that people do do things like that. Yet, the story is so superbly told that its telling is an end in itself, quite justifiable, compared at least with Shaw's new play, which carries a poor message, and no melodrama. The threads of repartee between three contrasting pairs of characters are deftly managed for contrast and effect; they presage tragedy ominously well; and in the end the author ties them together with a bang...