Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Glee Club gave the last concert of its Boston series Wednesday evening to an enthusiastic audience which crowded Symphony Hall. Fritz Kreisler, the assisting artist, played the Brahms G major Sonata and a group of short pieces with his familiar skill and taste. The Glee Club has been remarkably fortunate in its soloists this season in Boston. Like the Boston Symphony Orchestra, however, the Glee Club need not fear that anyone will make disparaging comparisons between its work and that of such admirable assisting artists as Kreisler, Hempel and Albert Spalding. This chorus, almost alone among amateur choruses...
...English prose, but any standard version, ancient or modern, may be used. The plays of Shakespeare, as foremost among the masterpieces of the English tongue, are indispensable to all students of literature. Moreover, the language of Shakespeare, like that of the Bible, has become part and parcel of our familiar speech...
...romanticism to what is vivid and vital in the common human life around us. The poets are taking deeper hold upon reality. Old romantic poets went to the distant and dead to find their strange beauty, but the new find a strange beauty and a tragic terror in the familiar lives of men and women in our workaday world. This might be called strong tendencies towards the democratic in literature. So strong is this tendency that I doubt whether, if Milton were living now, he would be able to stir up interest in his great epics concerning lost paradise...
...words for the Hymn should be set to some familiar tune, such as, "Integer Vitae" or "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand...
William T. Tilden, 2d, who will speak tonight in the living room of the Union, needs no introduction and deservedly so. He has become in the past few years as much of national figure as Babe Ruth and not to be familiar with his name and fame is to confess oneself a shut-in. In his talk here, Mr. Tilden will treat of the game's personal side and tell some of his experiences while travelling about the world on American tennis teams. His subject is excellently cosmopolitan and there is little reason for those who have seen...