Word: contrastedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manet "Still Life of Fish," lent by Messrs. Durand-Ruel, there is an intensity of visual effect that startles. Here is no philosophizing or sentimentality. The artist sees with eyes more widely open than most of us. In contrast to this the Gauguin Still Life--the Table with Fruit and Flowers, lent by Mr. John T. Spaulding. Here the artist is in a tender mood which is something of a surprise...
While the Reading Period is still comparatively young as college institutions go, the major problems of balanced reading lists, library facilities etc. should have been at least largely solved after three trials. There is still time to hope for more than intangible results from the Reading Period, but the contrast between the facts and the enthusiastic prophecies offered at its outset shows that change in the institutional environment alone is not enough to bring about any very far-reaching improvements in the results attained...
...have lately returned from a journey among our sister Republics. . . . We wish only for the maintenance of their independence. . . . While we have had wars in the western hemisphere yet on the whole the record is in encouraging contrast with other parts of the world. . . . It is impossible, my countrymen, to speak of Peace without profound emotion. In thousands of homes in America, in millions of homes around the world, there are vacant chairs. It would be a shameful confession of our unworthiness if it should develop that we have abandoned the hope for which all these men died. Surely civilization...
...sketches themselves are highly entertaining, and afford a pleasing contrast to the usual run of theatre offerings. Laid mostly in a Russian milieu, the acts have a character only to be compared with that of previous tours of this company...
Last week in Manhattan, two seasoned actresses undertook Hedda Gabler, in different theatres, simultaneously. Admirers of the two ladies, as well as Hedda's friends, sped back and forth, uptown and downtown, to compare and contrast the performances of Actresses Eva Le Galliénne and Blanche Yurka. It was unfortunate and misleading, for the Misses Le Galliénne and Yurka have scarcely anything except their sex and profession in common. But between them they allowed the coincidence to happen and, with the public still craving Ibscenities as an aftermath of last year's Ibscentennial, comparisons...