Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amore dei Tre Re" is a curious mixture of old and new tendencies, and represents perhaps the middle ground between an opera like "Rigoletto" and one which may be written twenty years from now. The music is entirely modern, melodically and harmonically, and modern the orchestration; and then, in contrast, one finds a story which, with its antique romanticism, would have recommended itself to Verdi. The time is the middle ages, and the story, quickly told, involves a wife who has been unfaithful to her husband while he is off fighting the invaders. His blind father knows the guilt...
Equally dramatic and thrown into sharp relief by its contrast to the famous trial of the 'forties was the scene in the Suffolk County Court-room on Monday night. Again the trial was for murder and the case hinged on the question of confession. The evidence had been presented. The judge advised the prisoner that he might address the jury in his own behalf. What followed is one of the most extraordinary speeches in an American court...
...Specialization has been analyzed, preached about, "viewed with alarm" on every side, until even the word has become a commonplace. But it is only when there stands out a great exception to the law, like M. Genesco, that the force of the commonplace is driven home by the contrast...
...from the many-sided Roumanian virtuoso to the distorted possibilities of the future, but the contrast is striking. It was said that Leibnitz was the last man in the world to "know everything". With the piling up of information it has become impossible for any one to take "all human knowledge for his province", and the reaction has led men to keep their eyes on their own particular furrow without a glance for the next beside them...
...track meet, and boat race between the two colleges. Moreover, it contains photographs of every team with a few exceptions, which, so far as is known, were never photographed. A feature of the volume is the fact that all reports and figures have involved the most careful research in contrast to ordinary records, even contemporary ones, which were often incomplete and erroneous...