Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...requires the careful ministrations of three capable principals to save the authors' bacon from the fire of public disapproval, and the principals cook to the queen's taste. The methods of the three are in great contrast. Miss Kennedy depends upon her ability as an actress; she is constantly alert from beginning to end, with never a gesture too many, and never a quarter note too high, so far as she can see. Sidney Blackmer, as Gregory Farnham, the American lover, twice entangled by engagements, employs the easy, off-stage air which distinguishes Roland Young. There is too much, physically...
This decision is in strong contrast to the custom of most of our modern writers. They feel called, by some great power, to produce voluminously; and they feel pledged to publish voluminously. Every thought which their minds conceive, every word which their facile pens write, must be perpetuated in print. They are writing literature which the public should have. Even after their death, their heirs gather up the last scraps of paper and edit them, so that the world may have all that the authors wrote...
...program commences with Weber's "Overture to 'Der Freischurtz'," an overture of many themes of which the slow movement and the Allegro are sung everywhere. Below that is a long, groaning melody, thrown out by the clarinet, which is a novel contrast. Following the overture are two Debussy Nocturnes, "Nuages" and "Fetes." The composer explains the former as "The unchangeable appearance of the sky, with the slow and solemn march of clouds dissolving in a gray agony tinted with white." The latter is described as "Rhythm dancing in the atmosphere with bursts of brusque light. There is also the episode...
...firm needed to balance the exciting gifts of Stanford White. No one, even with an unlimited fund to draw on, could decorate a house like Stanford White. There was a certain discreet voluptuousness in his patterning of rugs and hangings of sombre and yet burning tones, his use, for contrast, of tapestries stiff with gold threads, of smoldering paintings and shawls dipped in scarlet, lit with mannered passion like suspended flame. As an architect his imagination rioted into turrets and cupolas, a certain Moorish richness of proportion, avoiding the florid by a breath and a promise. He made a great...
...considered that flying from Paris to London was dangerous." But now, as soon as he could raise two million francs, he would build another monoplane, with wings two meters thick and with four motors, and hope to see it flown across the Atlantic by his young son. The contrast between M. Blériot's prediction and a prediction made almost simultaneously by U. S. Postmaster-General Harry S. New was virtually the contrast between European and U. S. air progress. "It is my sincere belief," said Mr. New earnestly, "that within a comparatively short time a person desiring...