Word: plangent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage, the strings are made too evident by the dramatist. Effects of huge shadows and splashes of vivid color sometimes divert attention from the fact that the characters themselves are pulled about in jerks. Miriam Hopkins, erstwhile of musical comedy, and Fredric March as the lover have several plangent scenes together, and C. Henry Gordon pitches about energetically as the husband. But the trail of the sawdust is over the play...
...just resumed its activities. Edwin Franko Goldman used to conduct his white-winged, leather-throated forces on the green at Columbia University, whift the grinning statue of the Great God Pan leered at the audience under the torrid moon. But that space has become too congested, Now the plangent tones of the cornet, the barbaric beatings of the bass-drums call New Yorkers to the Mall in Central Park every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening. Forty thousand attended the first concert. A new stand and sounding board, the gift of Elkan Naumberg, sends the sound for hundreds...
...Meanwhile the Philharmonic Orchestra got through one of its two positively final farewell encore appearances under Mr. Mengelberg. The parting diet consisted of another performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (TIME, March 17), with a plangent, daringly lugubrious Bach cantata, Selig ist der Mann, as dessert...
...These plangent protests seem ill considered. It is probable that any parents who are so shiftless as to stand by while their children posture and grimace at the command of bull-throated directors would stand by anyway. In such a case the children would inhabit some top floor garret, subsist on cheese and warmed-over coffee. They would have the questionable advantage of consorting with other gutter children. They would grow up into third-rate mechanics? kitchen or gasoline, according...
...same hey-day in the blood which becomes intoxicated with a single plangent and stalwart line and clings there, forgetful of all else...