Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sleep-walking" scene was described by Professor Kittredge as the most pathetic in all tragedy. "But the culmination", he concluded, "comes in Macbeth's reception of the news of his wife's death. His placid comment on the subject is in direct contrast to the passionate love for her evinced in earlier scenes. This--more than the murder of Duncan, more than the slaying of Banquo--this is the tragedy of Macbeth...
...School, in contrast to most, requires a bachelor's degree of all its students, and the Department calls for a wide field of distribution from its members. The attempt is being made to produce architects who will know better than to design a skyscraper of beautiful proportions, with nothing but a medieval spiral staircase to the top floor; and who may, nevertheless have a knowledge of architectural types prior to the Victorian era. With similar intent, a solid background of literature and history is required of all students concentrating in Fine Arts...
...anxiously looked forward, perhaps, to the Brahms rhapsody for contralto voice and chorus as a piece only too rarely performed. But, as with breakfast-foods, "there's a reason!" In contrast with the rest of the program, the work seemed somewhat dry and uninteresting. True, the solo voice is well blended in the chorus, but one wondered whether the responsibility for that lay most with Brahms or with Mme. Homer, who singing without rehearsal, gave a nearly perfect performance...
...variant of the untutored-person-in-high-society theme. In this case, the son of the house has become engaged to the very attractive daughter of a deceased bookmarker, and his ingenious mother invites the girl and her "designing" parent to Deynham so that her son may see by contrast the short-comings of his bride-to-be. From the opening scene of general consternation in which the rector's wife remarks that "In times like these, a visit is often most helpful"-the times in question being births, deaths, etc.-to the close of the last act, the play...
...rather fast tempo, was given an authoritative interpretation. Chaliapin answered the thunderous applause at the end of each group with several encores. Perhaps the best of these was the "Inquesta tomba" of Beethoven. Both of the assisting artists, a planist and a 'cellist, served as a good contrast for the impeecable basso of the Metropolitan...