Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, the London critics marvelled at the recent run of The Beggar's Opera. They said it did not contain the "charm and spirit" of Gilbert and Sullivan; that it is inferior "artistically and musically...
...ever sat in the President's chair who was more genuinely a democrat or held more tenaciously to his faith in democracy than Woodrow Wilson, but no other man ever sat in the President's chair who was so contemptuous of all intellect that was inferior to his own or so impatient with its laggard processes...
...golden U. S. Spain and South America get their share of them, too. Thus the best talents in Germany and Austria are not to be heard in their native lands, and in France and Italy the same thing is true-though to a smaller extent. And inferior voices prevail in the opera houses. The opportunity for the moderately good American artist-the one not good enough for the high musical standards that now prevail in the U. S.-is obvious. The native artist cannot live on the prices paid to musicians, which, though enormous in figures, are drowned...
Many lecturers on music illustrate their remarks by playing some instrument, but usually the rendition of these illustration numbers is markedly inferior to the standard of a master of the instrument. Madame Landowska, however, uses the harpsichord with a truly artistic style and effect...
...sober second thought, to a calmer and more reasonable frame of mind. Fortunately this does not nor will not approach over-confidence. Yale never met Harvard without the firm determination to win, and there is no reason to believe that its playing on Saturday will be in any degree inferior to its brilliant record this year. But Yale's goal line has been crossed more than once during the season, while to its powerful offense Harvard will oppose a defense which has been continually growing in strength. It cannot be doubted that the Harvard team has had, hidden somewhere within...