Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relations of the poor whom we have with us always. Mr. Shaw utilizes a very old literary convention when he makes his characters reveal in the first person all the secrets, even the villainous secrets of their souls. His characters take after Chaucer's Pardoner. The dramatic contrast in "Pygmalion" between Dolittle and his daughter are remarkable. Both are unexpectedly raised to a station of "middle-class morality", but the one, Alfred Dolittle, "ruined" and "intimidated" by the change, which introduces to him fifty unsuspected relatives, who "touch" him where he touched others before, in the pocket book, sinks into...
This evening at 6.45 o'clock President C. C. Little '10, of the University of Maine, will speak on "Race Discrimination". President Little is the youngest college president in this country. He has certain new theories with regard to education which are in marked contrast to the old system, basing his principle on the business of teaching men to think for themselves, rather than to acquire a number of facts on the authority of his instructor...
...marked contrast to Hinkle's easy progress stands out Wakefield's series of hard-fought encounters. Although he too found no difficulty in his opponents of the first three rounds, he was put to it to win his next match from Carroll Harrington '24, 16-15, 15-12. This encounter was all that the score implies, for both men played a hard-hitting game that kept the score close. His semi-final match with W. P. Dixon '25 was even more bitterly contested, however, for he was but one point ahead near the end of the last game, with...
...will deny that New York is probably the most honest city in the world. Its mayor says so; so does the police commissioner; and now the Interborough Rapid Transit has revealed through the assistant to its president even more significant proof. In marked contrast to the dishonest Western cities, New York uses only fifty thousand slugs, checks and hammered pennies a month for complimentary subway rides...
...miserable comforters. Eilhu comes at last with youthful words of sympathy; the Voice of the Whirlwind makes known its will, and the Epilogue relates of Job's reward. That is all; no action, only dialogue in long and little divided recitation. Yet it is so built for contrast and emphasis, so perfectly tuned, set in such a superb harmony of color, light, and gesture, that it carries the audience in inspired suspense through on unbroken hour and a half...