Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modernistic, overhanging beams and great windows of the center form an imposing contrast to the school's first athletic venture. "It was a freshman football game against Harvard," Sachar recalls, "and your team had to lend us the pants." The Judges' first team triumphed...
Touch and Go, in contrast, is not the sort of movie that will ever win an award. A pleasant though unpretentious British domestic comedy, the film concerns itself with a furniture designer who throws up his job and decides to pack up his family and emigrate to Australia. His plan begins to flounder when the family cat runs away and when, three days before the sailing, his teen-age daughter falls desperately in love. None of this, of course, has any great dramatic value, but it is frequently fun to watch. As the furniture designer, Jack Hawkins shows some talent...
From opposite borders of the U.S., two major advances in the delicate art of heart surgery were reported last week. They made a dramatic contrast: in one operation the heart was kept beating during surgery; the other made a point of stopping...
Most advanced composers see hope for new musical sounds in the field of electronics, but Baschet disagrees. "Our music is to electronic music what fresh peas are to canned peas," he says. His instruments produce a tumult of resonant echoes-in contrast to the comparatively orderly overtones of orchestral and electronic instruments-thus automatically providing the dissonance that modern composers love. "All these resonators produce an ensemble of other sounds awakened by one note. As with metaphysics, it is precisely the chaos that is interesting...
Beautiful and sad, the Lamente Della Ninfa, sung by Sarah-Jane Smith, the Nymph, and a supporting Chorus including Malcolm Ticknor, John Crawford, and Thomas Beveridge. Miss Smith interpreted her plaintive melodies very expressively, while the deep-voiced Chorus provided rich contrast. The form of this work, that of a Greek Play in miniature, is truly Renaissance, but the feeling is so direct and unrestrained as to anticipate later eras...