Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This latter group, disgusted by excesses of emotionalism and structural looseness, made a vigorous attempt to clarify their writing and restore classical formal principles. They threw out or slighted soft, luscious sound combinations and meandering formal styles which predominated in the music to which they objected. Now a gracious, less rigid type of writing seems to be coming back, perhaps because composers feel themselves on safe ground formally and not apt to fall into the excesses against which they reacted...
Moreover, a Yale teacher spends four years as an instructor, and five as an assistant professor; Harvard has eliminated the latter post and substituted a five-year position of Faculty instructor...
...Madonna and the Chair. Despite official denials, it is fairly obvious that Italy's masterpieces will tour the U. S. until World War II blows over. In explaining why the show was given to Chicago rather than New York City, suave Prince Colonna observed that the latter was "too near...
...proper emphasis upon style and technique will perhaps draw a short but hearty laugh from an onlooker. The same subject performed in a subtle fashion will cause a series of chuckles, and a mellow, not a blatant, memory of the picture. The former is a funny incident; the latter is artistic humor. Oberlaender, by not making us laugh too loudly, gives us something to remember...
...Harvard Anti-War Committee and the H. S. U. will hold peace rallies today, the former in Memorial Hall at 11 o'clock this morning, and the latter in the New Lecture Hall at 2:30 o'clock...