Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times, as in "Simon Prophesying Over the infant Christ," the composition seems artificial and the colors weak. The composition of all the works is contrived, but Blake usually uses his contemporary conventions to produce a heightened effect, and only seldom does he fail. Generally the movement flows upward and inward toward the center, where often a great figure of good or evil protects or destroys. Sometimes the composition is unconventional, as in "Lucia Carrying Dante in his Sleep," where the strange, vivid seen, the striking composition, and the ennobled character of the figures make one realize that William Blake...
...band not only arrived late for a Capital steps performance but also saw its expected financial coup through the Virginia hitherlands fail to materialize. Based on the familiar Winter Song, a new Dartmouth medley will highlight the October 24 program in Sanders Theater...
...coloratura is a cross between cackle and a whistle, and performers on the vocal high wire and trapeze are utterly devoid of musical interest to me." O'Connell attacks Lily ("The Pons That Depresses") and husband André Kostelanetz with a waspish malice that a few, backhanded compliments fail to soften. He dislikes their "hand-decorated and chromium-plated" music, inveighs against their commercialism, even gossips that Lily's high heels are designed "to distract the eye from rather generous dimensions in the horizontal planes...
Unfortunately, this simple story of faith is embellished with cliches. When the heroine "gets into trouble" and the hero volunteers to make an honest woman of her, things really get out of hand. Expert performances by Muriel Smith and William Veasey fail to halt the runaway...
...talks on atomic control and disarmament fail, what course will the Soviet Union take...