Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first day a general symposium will be held, with active discussion and speeches by the various authorities. The other two days will be devoted to round table meetings, each college delegation will have a chance to give the point of view of the country it represents...
...YORK--The bludgeoned body of Walter Engelberg, 40, secretary to the New York German Consul-General, was found in his modest Brooklyn home today amid circumstances as mysterious as the slaying was brutal...
...that in the works of Byrd. This sort of comparison is useless as a way of determining the musical value of either type of composition, for in the orchestral-choral concert work, the details of fitting the individual words and phrases to the musical lines is secondary to the general movement of the whole composition. In the small church piece, on the other hand, the subtle enhancement of the phonetic and expressive qualities of each word and phrase by the musical line is the primary element of the style...
...Psalms or the Beethoven Mass than in the music of the sixteenth century; it is merely different. If we allow that it is legitimate to take sacred texts like the mass and the psalms from the church service to the public concert, then we must adopt a broader, more general view of the significance of the text and the sort of setting which is appropriate...
...refreshingly written, possibly a little Sitwellian in general tone, but the appealing and romantic picture of the characters makes up for any literary license on Coffin's part. The author's quaint poeticizing fits the Pennells better than more modern treatment. As a brand of extinct Americans they look more realistic in daguerreotype...