Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senior Fellows are the managing body of the Society, which is designed to meet the problem of associating future creative scholars in a distinct body that will have an attraction for ambitious young men of talent...
Further, the four distinct plots of A Midsummer-Night's Dream, which clog it plenty as a play, virtually wreck it as a musical. Helena, Hermia & Co. prove just as ghastly bores running loose in the wooded outskirts of New Orleans as in the Athenian groves. Nor are some of the headliners all they might be. Louis Armstrong should stick to his blast, not try to play Bottom. The Maxine Sullivan who sings Moonland is not the irresistible Maxine Sullivan of Loch Lomond...
...average person "BAND" simply means a group of musicians who play together, but to one who has a keen sense of appreciation for music, the dance band has a distinct unity...
...most interesting things about bands, is that oft times they play the same tunes, but there is a distinct difference in presentation. In other words, arrangements are different. This has plenty to do with one's style. Even if two bands played the same arrangement, there would be a noticeable difference in execution and interpretation. Thus, a certain band becames prominent because its peculiar style appeals to the public. In every band there is something about the arrangements, that should more or less attract attention, either because they are unusually different or decidedly unique in some particular detail. Good arrangements...
...produced the impression that the whole problem has been permanently disposed of. Actually the controversy has merely proceeded into a second stage whose outcome will be as Harvard-shaking as that of the first. It has been recognized from the beginning that there were two more or less distinct issues involved. The long-run problem of flexibility in the system of appointments was debated and settled in spirited faculty meetings featured by ample journalistic spreads. But the immediate problem of the blow to Harvard's teaching by the dismissal of several assistant professors last June is at present being argued...