Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, to become English. His work is reminiscent of no other composer. In melody, in harmony, but most strikingly in orchestration, he is absolutely original. It is, moreover, an interesting, a powerful originality. Never except in the Glee Club's great song "At Father's Door" have we heard such gripping, monotonous, insistent despairing horror as in the continuous, strangely rhythmed first movement--"Mars--Bringer of War." All the numerous Wallenstein symphonic poems must blush at their innocence! A change in the order of these pieces would improve their effect. Toward the end they are all of such a drowsy...
...generally admitted that Isaiah and Jeremiah (they seem to be hitched inseparably like Conkling and Platt) needed a great deal of courage to speak their minds, and they undoubtedly did need all they possessed. So has every critic of similar stamp who has made his voice heard since that time, but in the present year of the Republic the shoe is on the other foot. Whereas before it has been dangerous in the extreme to knock the existing order the challenge now is for men to defend it. It is always easiest to go with the crowd--the crowd always...
Concerning present conditions Mr. Hoover might be described as having the point of view of an optimist. An optimist is popularly described as a man who has just talked with a pessimist, although generally he can do no more than listen. Mr. Hoover must have heard a great many in his time and various activities, and he has reacted accordingly. Not that he attempts to be a little sun-shine in the home. He does not sing with Pippa (who is by the way, no relation to Mr. Browning, the poet): "God's in his heaven All's right with...
...Christine Ladd-Franklin renowned mathematician and student of the theories of color-vision, will lecture on the subject of "Color-Sensation," this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson A, at the request of the audience which heard her first talk on the same subject last Tuesday. 'Mrs. Franklin, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, is a lecturer at Columbia University. Her research in the science of color-vision has been probably the deepest and most thoroughgoing ever made. The lecture this afternoon will be illustrated by lantern slides
...sound was heard save a muffied churkle from the figure on the couch...