Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While at Bowdoin College, where he was a classmate of Longfellow's, Hawthorne indulged in frivolity sufficient to incur occasional censure from the authorities, behaviour in contrast to his later position as one of the spiritual leaders of literature. In this role he was not of the type of Dickens in the handling of concrete and social questions, but was more akin to Thoreau in looking at life from an individual point of view, and in leading the movement for greater individual freedom...
...Thursday Professor Murray spoke of Sheridan's contemporary; Goldsmith. Sheridan differs from Goldsmith in his dramatic treatment of eighteenth century society in that he was brilliant, devastating satire quite in contrast to the beginnings of idealism which appear in the work of Goldsmith...
...went, except in Detroit. There, before audiences composed chiefly of bibulous automobile makers, our show was a flop. They just couldn't see it. I like to watch the people who are watching my shows and it is interesting to notice their reactions. Here, in Boston, now, in contrast to Detroit, the audiences seem to understand the show, and though it doesn't call for a brilliant mind to follow out show, we presuppose a certain amount of sophistication, intelligence, and education on the part of the people who come to see and hear our revue...
...contrast with this purely native development is the proposed importation intact of the Oxford Union to New Haven. A mass meeting last night was to consider the amalgamation of the Yale Debating Union, the Liberal Club, the Yale Court and three or four other similar organizations into one body. Since the move is sponsored by the Presidents of the several organizations it seems reasonably certain of fulfillment...
...second striking contrast between this and the average exhibition of its kind is the differences of style which are displayed by the individual pictures. There is a picture to suit every taste. From the careful almost miniature-like technique of the "Sorco River, North Conway," with its quiet backwater reflecting the overhanging trees--and with which, be it admitted, the Student Vagabond was strongly impressed--to the rather violent impressionism of such works like the "Pond in Pinkham Notch", from the grey two light haze of the "Tuilerics Gardens" and the "Place de la Concorde" to the brilliant yellow sunshine...