Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American Association of University Professors by its Committee of Three, on academic freedom in wartime. This was to be expected. The report would have profited by making itself a closer parallel to the pronouncement from Harvard, which is the best considered statement on the subject that has appeared. In contrast with it, the report to the University Professors has the effect of avoiding the most difficult kinds of cases and laying down platitudes for principles. In general, it takes the ground that doubts should be resolved in favor of the teacher, who, however, when he violates the letter...
...were 8,000,000 subscribers to the last British loan of $5,000,000,000, or a ratio of one in six, and the British are proud that their record was superior to that of the Germans of whom one in ten subscribed to their most recent issue. In contrast to these records is that of the United States in the Spanish War when there were only 325,000 bond purchasers, or one in 256, to the small loan of $200,000,000. The only way, it is said, this country can show that it is fully...
...disappointment. Not that the music is dull and wholly uninteresting; on the contrary, much of it is quite agreeable. There are some alluring waltz measures, some elaborate ensembles, and a vigorous and stirring march. But the orchestral score is heavy and far from inspired, and the solo pages, in contrast to those of "The Chocolate Soldier," are rather ineffectual...
...enough to say that, with possibly a single exception, all are worthy of the place they have won in the Advocate. The stories, too, are well written, though slight and immature artistically, as compared with the verse, and depend too exclusively for their effectiveness upon some simple, strong, unshaded contrast, or upon some element of surprise--extravagant or farcical--in the denouement. Except in "A Fool," by Mr. Putnam, there is little attempt at characterization, and even here it is rather rudimentary. The one article "Concerning the Young Russians" is interesting and well-informed, though more might, with justice...
...played--with the possible exception of another Frenchman. M. Clerget is a really powerful person on the stage, and his abilities are not limited to a single field; he is light, amusing, and whimsical or serious, as the case may require, and in both moods equally fine. In contrast to these figures are Marjorie Patterson as Pierrot and Margot Kelly as Phrynette, who, although well adapted to their chosen characters, have an American, air about their work, which must mark it as unfinished. Miss Patterson has a tendency toward nervousness and exaggerated vivacity. Miss Kelly, on the other hand, while...