Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robinson stands in definite contrast to Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, who will not relinquish the Republican leadership. Mr. Lodge is ultra-conservative and a sectionalist. His policies are much the same as those he expressed when he first came to the Senate 30 years...
Looking back upon the programmes arranged by Dr. Davison for previous occasions, there seems to be none which quite measures up to this last; none which exhibits such keen appreciation of the demands of balance and contrast; none, finally, which so succeeds in combining in nicely-judged proportion the various and varied fashions (we call them "schools") of music. Programme making is an art, of course, and requires more care and consideration than audiences realize; and even when a programme is well, drawn up, the foreplanned effect is usually lost or distorted by the introduction of a series of encores...
Thursday evening, then, the East and West of music, so to speak, met. The contrapuntal perfections of Palestrina and the polyharmony of Boulanger bowed, smiled, and behaved in a highly amicable way. The "Vielle Priere Bouddhique", to which Wilbye's rather meaningless "Amarillis" afforded good contrast, is modern music at its best, and establishes a thoroughly ancient and oriental atmosphere by the simple devices of unusual melodic progression and strange and mingled harmonies. The open chords at the beginning are effective; they seem to tell of mystery and paganism. The Christmas song of Arnold Bax's is rousing and tuneful...
Yale's magnificent new gift, from an anonymous donor, of seven hundred and fifty acres of woodland on the outskirts of New Haven, stands out in refreshing contrast to the members of half-given or useless legacies which are the bane of education today, embarrassing the beneficiaries as much as they inflate the names of the benefactors. Although it has been said that over half the title of college president is the office of continually passing the hat; it is more and more becoming the fashion for a captain of industry to justify his gains by largesse thrown...
...members of the Jewish race in England", he said, "are more loyal to the British government than to their own race. The help which they gave to England in the Palestine campaign was due entirely to patriotism for England. In France, Judaism has almost disappeared, but a sharp contrast to this is to be found in Germany and German Austria. There, there is a wave of anti-Semitic feeling which has found expression in the murder of such men as Rathenau...