Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Aldington has done his job up brown: by the time he gets through with his characters there is not a single one you can stomach. Georgie is pathetic but repulsive; Purfleet is a cad; Geoffrey a fool; all the rest run the gamut of knavery and oafishness. In a supererogatory epilog Aldington underlines his tale: England is on the downgrade, nothing can help her. the War killed off the best, delivered the rest into the strangling clutch of "human weeds...
Under the direction of Arthur Fiedler, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will present a varied program at Symphony Hall at 8 o'clock this evening. The list includes numbers from ten different great composers, thus enabling music lovers to enjoy the greatest variety of entertainment. The offerings run the gamut of musical compositions from the deep overture of "Tannhauser" of the immoral Wagner to the lighter melody of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" and Boccherini's Minuet. The program is as follows: Polonaise Chopin "Barber of Seville" overture Rossini Minuet Boccherini "Madame Butterfly" Fantasia Puccini "Peer Gynt" Suite Grieg "Valse Trieste" Sibelius...
...advertise the new books. If the reader were to interpret literally the extravagant claims of the publishers for their wares his life would be a frenzy of rushing from one "most notable contribution of the year" to the next "novel of extraordinary beauty" and so on through the whole gamut of superlatives...
...each generation is to consider not only economic theory but the whole gamut of the complex sociological factors existing at the time and to stimulate progress. ... So far as possible it should avoid creating new dangers for its successors...
...charge often levelled against the Princeton undergraduate by outsiders--namely, that he is cast into a certain inevitable mould by the time he has run the gamut of extra-curricular activities, clubs, week-ends and final comprehensives--must be recognized as having an element of truth. There certainly is a definite "Princeton manner" and attitude toward life which is more especially observable in the Princetonian when he is away from college and alone in an alien society. Debutantes call it "smoothness" and idolize it, but others are inclined to characterize it as everything from "snobbishness" to "pseudo-sophistication...