Word: discords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Richard Blackmore's novel, when outraged citizens marched against the Doones-outlaws who levied tribute on the surrounding country-they set up cannon on the mountain ridges on both sides of Doone Valley but, falling into discord, fired across the Valley at each other while the Doones sallied out unscathed below. Boomed Lindsay Warren...
...with a technique and tone that captivated the countless thousands of Harvard men tuned in at the moment. But many a listener heard at one time or another during the program a slowly increasing buzz. Was the immortal Paderewski executing a deft tremolo with the lower tones? Was the discord a modernistic tone-poem? Was the piano out o tune? Most emphatically not! It was simply that certain unnamed but fuzzy-bearded individuals were engaged in peeling hair off their respected chins with (O shame of shames) electric razors...
...feeling for melodic line is too strong to identify him exclusively with this French school. He exerts in his writing a fascinating play of orchestral color and unusual rhythmic invention. His harmonies are bold and original; the dissonances resulting from free polyphony rather than arbitrary use of discord for its own sake. "A Pagan Poem" shows the composer mystic, idyllic even macabre. The modal atmosphere often felt in his music is the result of a strong impression made on him by the Russian liturgy with which he grew familiar as a young man visiting in Russia...
Biggest crab apple in the barrel of discord has long been Electric Bond & Share Co., which led the fight against the Public Utility Holding Company Act ("death sentence") requiring that utility empires be reorganized into geographically integrated systems with no more than one intermediary holding company between the operating companies and the top. But last spring the Supreme Court ended a long SEC-E.B. & S. court fight by deciding that the clause of the act requiring all the holding companies to register with SEC was constitutional...
That the New Deal was eager to turn the apples of discord into sweet cider further appeared when Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson summoned four utility bigwigs to Washington to discuss the Administration's long-bruited plan to foster a billion dollars worth of utility expansion for purposes of national defence. Taking the hint, utility stocks soared to new highs for the year on the New York Exchange, led the industrial and railroad averages also to new high ground...