Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Randall Thompson has chosen the last course, bringing a modern harmonic vocabulary to the forms and even the styles of the classical composers. His most distinctive characteristic--the parallel chordal progressions and the contrary motion of mirroring lines shows the same concern for pattern that characterizes baroque music. His counterpoint is at times almost indistinguishable from late baroque, especially in his formal fugues, and he avoids the unusual intervals of contemporary music in favor of more traditional linear movement...
Braine's novel, in fact, presents a startling parallel to The Red and the Black. Like Julien Sorel in Stendhal's masterpiece, Hero Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) is a handsome young parvenu of considerable practical intelligence. Rising 25, he sits at his desk in the town hall and dreams the usual "clerk's dream" of sports "cars, town houses, Riviera villas, linen sheets-and women who look right in them. "I'm going to have the lot," he announces grimly one day, and, like Sorel, he sets his cap for the daughter (Heather Sears...
...began going to Architect Wright's studio in Oak Park, Ill. In the midst of architects busy designing picturesque Queen Anne-style houses and neoclassic copies, Wright lopped off gables and pillars with a stroke of his pencil, created his own prairie houses. He flattened the roof to parallel the earth line, projected eaves to enforce the sense of shelter. Taking the fireplace and low. massive chimney as a central pivot. Wright began to project exuberant wings, bring balconies into living rooms, replace the dark corners with glass...
...extracurricular activities, Monro pointed out that newspaper and dramatic work at Radcliffe have been largely starved to death by girls' participation in parallel Harvard groups. The Dean implied that it is not entirely natural for the girls to come to the boys to such an extent...
...growing unhappy with Cambridge. The weather no longer depressed him, for that had improved, but something that he could not pin down bothered him, something about the atmosphere of the University itself. Looking ahead of him, Vag could see his future stretching like a straight railroad track, the parallel rails appearing to come closer together as they ran across his mental landscape...