Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debussy, Paul Dukas and Jacques Ibert, Ravel worked with combinations of tone as impressionist painters did with blurred combinations of color, got nebulous and exotic effects from his orchestra. He was an eclectic, often deliberately imitated the idioms of exotic or historic peoples, dishing them up in his own particular French sauce. Thus his opera L'Heure Espagnole and his descriptive orchestral works Bolero, Alborada del Gracioso and Rhapsodic Espagnole are built up of Spanish idioms; his La Valse has a Viennese, his Le Tombeau de Couperin an early 18th-Century flavor. A movement in Ma Mere...
...there's one man who doesn't expect to be taken in by wild dreams of success. Coach Hal Ulen is taking particular pains this year to keep the Crimson heads below the swelling point. Not that every Yale meet swimmer isn't justified in running around muttering "We beat Yale" to himself. It isn't every day that Harvard is able to break a string of 163 victories. But Ulen is watching out for over-confidence. He's got a team just now that's tops, and you can be pretty sure that he's going to break...
...particular interest because of the international character of the matches are the two hockey games the Stubbsmen will play with Montreal and McGill. The Montreal game will be played at the Boston Garden on Thursday night at 8:30 and the McGill game at the Garden on Saturday night. The latter contest arrays the Crimson sextet against one of the most formidable college hockey teams ever developed. In its two opening games McGill defeated Montreal 9-0 and Princeton 10-0. A year ago McGill was the only team which defeated George Ford's team, and the Canadians still hold...
...great debt which Japan owes to Boston," Saito declared. "Many of the makers of modern Japan had their education at Harvard." He mentioned in particular Baron Kikkawa, who wrote of his education here, "Had I lived those years in Japan, I would have been surrounded by so many attendants that I should not have learned to depend upon myself so much . . . I recommend my children to cultivate the spirit of independence so to prepare themselves as to be able to stand in the world without the aid of others...
...civilization to junior and senior high-school children. Its creed: "The American people have so far mastered the forces of nature that, for the first time in history, we can now live in an age of plenty for all." It publishes eight issues a year, each dealing with a particular problem. Issues to date have included Housing, Food, Men & Machines, Power, Youth Faces the World, Social Security, We Consumers, Movies, News. Next month Building America will show the Labor problem...