Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part, Sullivan never surpassed -- and possibly never equalled -- his score for Iolanthe. The overture is one of only two that are fully developed pieces of music (Yeomen of the Guard has the other), in contrast to the usual potpourri of tunes, often stitched together by another hand. Sullivan's orchestration is delectable, especially all the elfin woodwind writing appropriate for a fairy world. And nobody has ever demonstrated more variety and skill in setting the English language to music, whether for solo or ensemble singers. The first-act finale of Iolanthe is one of the largest, richest and most ambitious...
...your story on Prince Charles, "The Man Who Will Be King" [May 15], you recalled the strong prejudices the Duke of Windsor held for men of color by contrast with the liberal attitude of the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales...
...which has far surpassed the once influential National Association of Manufacturers as a pragmatic power in Washington. As long as a decade ago, the N.A.M. was dismissed by one expert on capital powerbrokers as being lost in "a faintly fusty aura of dignity, lavender and the Union League." By contrast, the Chamber, operating out of a stately marble and limestone headquarters facing Lafayette Park, has come on strong. Embracing 2,500 local affiliates, 1,300 professional and trade associations and 68,000 corporations, it threw its weight behind 61 legislative issues last year, among them labor...
...Treasury Anthony Solomon managed to be upbeat, suggesting that fewer dollars would be pouring overseas in the future, because the weakening economy is now starting to drag down the U.S. growth rate to a level closer to that of the rest of the world. The reasoning is in sharp contrast to the White House's yearlong drive to persuade West Germany and Japan to pump up their economies rather than to have the U.S. rely on a slowing of its own; and it is typical of the wavering signals that the Administration has been sending out all along. The White...
...flight. The most startling of these is Mark Cohen's Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, June 1975, which shows a girl's head almost occluded by a sinister, balloon-like object (bubble gum, probably) with a hand rising behind her head like a crown of flesh. Thanks largely to the contrast between the light on her hair, which prickles electrically, the vague street background and the greasy, diffused surface of the bubble, it is an image of unrepeatable weirdness...