Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today's youth has a tendency "to act out, to display, his inner turmoil, in direct contrast to the suffering-out of the same internal agitation by adolescents of yesteryear." Among Lindner's examples: four Brooklyn youths arrested last August, among other things, for beating an old man to death in a park-as Lindner puts it, "a devil's rosary of crimes ranging from rape to murder, and all stamped with an unbelievable degree of sadism." Another of his examples: the New Zealand girl. Pauline Parker, 16, who savagely murdered her mother, assisted by a girl...
...listener with a from whose essence cannot be analyzed in terms of melody or of harmony. Ernest Levy, in his recent lectures at M.I.T., suggested that the fugue might best be apprehended spatially, with time, as an aesthetic factor, removed. This approach, peculiar to the fugue, stands in contrast with that type of appreciation whereby the listener views a piece as a drama in whose development he may participate...
Inclusion of a solo cantata in Sunday's program provided excellent contrast to the choral sound. Above all, Rameau's Le Berger Fidele requires style to sustain the text's nonsense. Fortunately the soloist was Jean Lunn, whose lovely voice is not yet tired from a heavy concert schedule. Her phrasing, diction, and impeccable vocal ornamentation placed the cantata's fluffiness in a proper musical perspective...
...power contract, the conflicting views of the commissioners have been reported as if the AEC were a bipartisan body, organized on political lines, or even as an arm of the Administration in power. For example: Chairman Strauss is now commonly identified in the press as "a Republican member" in contrast with Dr. Smyth, Mr. Zuckert and Mr. Murray, who were described as "the Democratic members...
Yale, undefeated in its first six games, and highly rated on the basis of both its energetic sports publicity man and its flashy sophomores stands in complete contrast to the Harvard team...