Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sophisticated pattern for bells in his Japanese Temple Gongs; stern bells crash and roll in Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture; sleigh bells jingle like hard, gay laughter in his Troika (Op. 37, No. 11); bells happily pious tinkle in the Celeste of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt; the profound and icy-hearted Kremlin bell booms in Rachmaninoff's Prelude (Op. 3, No. 2). Many are the other great composers who have written bell-music...
Clearly the President and Fellows have been seriously at fault. It is true that they, comprising the Corporation, acted technically within their right in neglecting Professor Baker and his branch of the English Department. But here was a matter affecting in a most profound way Harvard policy, and although the Board of Overseers is responsible for the acts of the Corporation and may be consulted by it at any time and may alter its actions, yet in this case not one inkling of Baker's struggle was ever allowed to reach the Overseers, the elected representatives of the alumni...
...nimble and adaptable instrument, bubble-light, steel-keen. His taste is of the highest degree of nicety, his appreciations broadly tolerant He is courageously frank, never self-consciously clever. Above all, he has what is usually lacking among our native critics in Music as in the other Arts?a profound background of intelligent scholarship...
...opening of the new American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, spoke Robert W. De Forest, President of the Museum, donor of the addition. A notable gathering listened, among them Lawyer Elihu Root, who also spoke. Said he: "We have here a chronicle of American history, more profound and more legible than any that the pen has ever created, for here is the concrete record that our forbears have left, not merely of their deeds, but of their way of thought, in the walls that housed them, the atmospheres that colored their lives . . . from the low-ceilinged room...
GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY?Francis L. Wellman ?Macmillan ($4.00). This volume is addressed "to the tens of thousands of men that are called each year to serve their first term in the jury box." Its object is stated by Author Wellman to be "to acquaint jurors with the profound importance and dignity of their membership in that ancient and honorable institution of Trial by Jury; to lay before them the duties, privileges and prerogatives of a juror, to open their minds to the fallacies of human testimony, the whys and wherefores of intentional perjury, the methods by which truth...