Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bull ring in which her new lover Escamillo is fighting. He begs her to return to him. She refuses. Mingled with this sombre piece of action come the jubilant shouts from the bull ring and the torreador's music from the orchestra. With this background of colorful contrast, Don José kills Carmen...
There is little to choose between the combination eights. Both are regarded as only average crews, in contrast with 1922 when Yale had one of the best combination boats in many years and won easily by six lengths. Yale this year has the advantage of having all its men rowing the Leader stroke, while the Crimson combination, made up as it is of four University men rowing Coach Muller's stroke, and four Freshmen who till three weeks ago had been under the direction of Coach Bert Haines...
...issue of the Evening Post, and chuckle at their wit and ponder over their philosophy. But in a volume we somehow look for a more sustained effort, more unity, and greater depth. It is not that we like the paragraphs less, but that they shine poorly in contrast with what their author has done in other fields...
They shine poorly in contrast with some of the short essays in this volume itself--as if Morley, realizing that all was not well, had inserted at judicious spots some of his arm-chair rather than word-desk writings. And there we found another difficulty at once. The book has two levels; one literary, one semi-journalistic, and we bounced around between the two for quite a time before we got used to the changes of pace. (There is a line mixed metaphor to serve as an opening for you, Chris...
...philosophy of the American labor movement is in sharp contrast to the philosophy of most of the European labor movements and it is on this point that American labor is subjected to most criticism in what Mr. W. J. Ghent in a recent book so well terms "the coteries of the metropolitan areas...