Word: divinest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps beer is the source of all the sins on earth; perhaps, on the other hand, it is the divinest of nectars. The CRIMSON is hardly self-righteous enough to arbitrate the question. Class dinners, it is true, have not been spotless, and perhaps are not yet so. But the morale of such functions is constantly improving, and there is no reason to fear that this year will mark a relapse into the orgies of a decade ago. The man so weak-kneed that he cannot refrain from undue excesses is more frowned on and less popular than he used...
...Spelman writes entertainingly of the opera of the future and presumes that his discussion is based on a "careful examination of the facts of the case." But we question the completeness of his knowledge of all the salient facts. After placing melody as the "divinest element" in music, he continues: "The next most important element in dramatic music is dissonance. The more acute the dissonance, the more intense the emotional effect." We are not sure what he means by this, but take it that he has reference to passages containing complex harmonies and unusual or complicated progressions. But therein...
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