Word: counterpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Denmark helps to explain his early obscurity. But at the same time, that remoteness enhanced his originality. Such composers as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, who were working in the late romantic tradition, projected their explosive forms out of subjective, often agonized emotion. Nielsen's free-flowing counterpoint and virile rhythms sprang partly from Danish folk roots, partly from a robust, wholesome objectivity. "What business have other people with my innermost feelings?" he asked...
...differing Asia hands from academe. The discussion was urbane and informed but not particularly illuminating. Former CBS Correspondent David Schoenbrun, now a professor of Vietnamese history at Columbia University, conceded that Greene's "emphasis on civilian targets gave a false impression," but called the film "a useful counterpoint to our own propaganda." Robert Scalapino, who teaches political science at Berkeley, observed that the documentary "did not mention the word 'Communism' once," and summed up that it "presented North Viet Nam as the North Vietnamese Communists would like to have...
...dialogue marks a change of voice for Williams, in that he varies his rich, sustained melodic line with bursts of terse, economic verbal counterpoint between the two actors. In the London production, Mary Ure and Peter Wyn-garde were critically acclaimed for the sure-footed skill they displayed in handling the rapid-fire crisscross of dialogue. There are no present plans for an American production, but it would be peculiarly ironic if Broadway were to receive the work of the finest living U.S. playwright as still another British import...
...broken arm and dislocated shoulder two days earlier when she slipped in the shower at the Romneys' Bloomfield Hills home. For reasons that go beyond personal affection, Romney's aides are hoping she mends swiftly. Lenore is a considerable asset on the stump, provides a warmly feminine counterpoint to her husband's granite-jawed, combative style, and helps calm him when the going gets rough...
...counterpoint to the passage in Leviticus appears in I Corinthians XI: 14, 15: "Doth not even nature itself teach you that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering." I do not mention this in condemnation of long hair. I myself have a moustache of four-weeks' growth...