Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was one essential side of it-the contrast between the stability of the Throne and the confusion teeming around it. The other side was expressed in a quiet talk of great beauty and simplicity (see RELIGION). The old Archbishop of York stood before the couple and said: "Notwithstanding the splendor and national significance of this occasion, this service in all essentials is exactly the same as it would be for any cottager who might be married this afternoon in some small country church in a remote village in the dales...
Uneasy Seat. All this is such a contrast to the old, torpid, wicked days that optimists might decide that those days have gone forever. Maybe they have...
Second on the program is "Fumed Oak," a low pitched middle-class drama which almost succeeds by contrast to the first offering only to father at the final curtain when Coward steps the action dead to allow his here to unwind the lives of the participants. Philip Tonge and Miss Lawrence play off beautifully against each other, but they are helpless in the face of the recurrent Coward tendency to be patronizing to the lower classes...
...element timing of action and dialogue carries the audience past the inherent failures of the work: and although the middle-class experiment fails through author's in ability to combine his overeager social consciousness with a saving fluency of dialogue, the director's fine sense of timing and contrast save the piece as a whole. Indeed, the neatly-balanced combination of Coward and Coward make the Shubert bill worth not one, but two evenings of almost anyone's time. C.W.B...
Nineteen guys in Crimson jerseys had a wonderful time. They played a very fine football game. And it was a riotous Crimson dressing room that elected Jim Feinberg Yale game captain. In contrast the only member of the visiting contingent that seemed to have enjoyed himself at all was the Brown Bear. The mascot gamboled ever the Stadium turf in a much more impressive manner than anyone else who came from Providence that afternoon...