Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only twice does this contrast come through--a scene in a local tavern where everyone gets good-and-old-fashioned drunk, and then Faustus tries to show off his black arts. Suddenly the division is there--everyone watches Faustus uneasily. He is a stanger; he is not one of them; he is damned...
...listener through. The serial composition is by the composer's own admission, a musical almanac "going from Beethoven to Schoenberg in five minutes." Harmonically it shows a startling resourcefulness, both tonal and non-tonal. Particularly amusing was the recurrence of a particularly slushy theme, either because of the humorous contrast with Pousseur's art, or perhaps due to its explicit banality in the Pousseur context...
...contrast, middle-and lower-echelon officials at the State Department, the Pentagon and U.S. headquarters in Saigon voiced profound pessimism. They were dismayed by the uncertain performance of the South Vietnamese government, dejected by the demoralization of a populace suddenly feeling even less secure than before, disappointed by the failure of U.S. intelligence in anticipating the scope of the Communist move at a time when such attacks clearly should have been anticipated. No one of course believed that half a million U.S. troops could be defeated by the enemy in Viet Nam; but there was considerable fear that they...
Like John Kennedy, Nixon refuses to kiss babies or wear funny hats on the campaign circuit. In contrast to Governor Romney's hyperactive hand-pumpings at street corner and factory gate, Nixon is deliberately restricting himself to broad policy speeches, delivered with a new urbanity and self-effacing if slightly forced humor, before sizable crowds. For unlike Romney, Nixon is almost too well known. After eight years with Eisenhower, his loss to Kennedy, and his disastrous defeat by Pat Brown in California, he knows he must avoid seeming stale-and a loser-in the voters' minds...
Prospects for this autumn's entering class are even darker. One study predicts if all those eligible are indeed drafted, only 105 men and 242 women will be able to enroll in the school, in contrast to a usual entering class of about 933 students...