Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illustrated by the recent debate of Bates College with Oxford, as reported in the Gavel, the organ of the intercollegiate honorary society for debaters. The Bates professor who accompanied the American trio does not assert that the Yankees prepared their arguments more fully. But he draws a sharp contrast between their businesslike, precise methods and the longer, more extemporaneous British procedure. The three Americans had carefully dovetailed their arguments. The three Britons each presented an individual point of view, caring nothing for minor inconsistencies. The American debate was based upon a careful brief. The British debate lacked logical arrangement...
...beginning of the War, the attention of the nations was concentrated on Europe, she occupied Shantung and made the famous Twenty-one Demands on China which were designed to end that country's control over her own affairs, political, military and financial Japan has indicated by her actions, in contrast to the suave statements of her diplomats, that she has the aspiration of building up a Japanese empire on the continent of Asia. Consequently, though she may be willing to agree to some small mutual limitation, no nation, with her ambitions can be expected to consent to any great reduction...
...dances from "Marouf" by Rabaud suffer in concert presentation. Their oriental monotony becomes occidental monotony, and the contrast they make to the rest of this charming opera cannot be realized. True there are some extremely clever orchestral effects, but the ballet and settings are felt to be lacking. The highly contrapuntal climax does not "sound" through with the clarity of the rest of the opera. "Marouf" has been performed in its entirely in New York, and at the Opera Comisue in Paris...
...artistocratic Englishwoman that Miss Barrymore is unconvincing. She is in no sense a Briton, and the fact is painfully apparent, particularly when the scene is laid in England. In the later portions of the play, surrounded by Americans, she succeeds, largely because of contrast, in putting across her characterization, but by that time the audience is willing to take almost anything at its face value. Outside of this weakness, one almost entirely of nationality, Miss Barrymore is superb. She not only develops a character, but she lives it; more could not be asked...
...invitation to Freshmen to attend a special service at Appleton Chapel this evening recalls, by the way of contrast, the time not many years past when men entering college were greeted by an invitation similar in content but couched in no uncertain terms, and brooking no refusal; and when no choir's "selections chosen especially for the occasion" were held out as a mildly alluring bait. Since those days we have enjoyed a freedom still unknown in many colleges. As a result some attend Chapel occasionally, a few with regularity...