Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Mayer '00 opened the debate, and said: "We are met this evening to discuss a question of the hour. Not for years has the country been so stirred over a matter of pure legislation as over the status which Congress shall decide upon for Porto Rico. This is a live, practical question, one that invites the sober consideration of every American. The decision of the American people on this question will decide whether we are to continue along that line of development which we have successfully followed since the beginning of our national existence...
...essentials of music are three in number--melody, rhythm and harmony--having their effect upon the ear, the emotions, and the intellect. Music is also of three distinct kinds, which represent a gradual development,--first, pure music, expressing no thought, simple in its intrinsic beauty; second, "programme" music, supposed to represent or to imitate real life; and third, dramatic music, which is the accompaniment of poetry. Beethoven's music exemplified the first kind, but failed in the second, the "programme" music. It remained for Schubert to immortalize dramatic music in the song. His ability to set any verse to music...
...regard to the characters, Shylock is unique in illustrating the passion of pure hatred. In the first act he is led partly by avarice, but as the play progresses his hatred for the race of Christians, represented by his enemy, Bassanio, drives him to the act of pure hatred which results in Bassanio's signing the bond. Yet there is something in the character of Shylock which almost invariably arouses sympathy and pity, because Shakespere created a Jew whose actions, though despicable, are clearly the result of the treatment of unfaithful Christians...