Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...characteristics. From sweetness and light to sonorities and shadows the strings play intensively. The wood-winds are edged and pungent: the brass rich in the horns, piercing in the trumpets, full-throated elsewhere: the percussion for tang and tingle. Gone are the gentle instrumental voices, as they would now seem, that elderly subscribers recall from Gericke's time...
Excitment over the discovery of America yesterday has left the Vagabond with only sufficient energy to list lectures of interest today and tomorrow, in a field of good things the following seem pre-eminent...
...follies of democracy are universally admitted, and there is nothing new to be said about them". Such are the words which Thucydides put in the mouth of Alcibiades some 400 years before the Christiamera. And yet it would seem that in this case the Athenian historian was wrong and that there is something new to be said about the virtues and the vices of what has been called the most glorious of political fallacies; for tomorrow night at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall, two modern philosophers will debate on whether democracy is or is not a failure...
...philosophers will not necessarily say anything new about democracy. Perhaps they won't; but what of it? The mere pleasure of hearing such men as Will Durant and Bertrand Russell in debate, will induce the Vagabond to spare the price of a ticket. As for regular lectures, the following seem of interest...
...Vagabond's chief aspiration is to suggest. If, by listing lectures on outer events which to him seem unusually insinuative and by an occasional comment on the lecturer's topic, he can incite any intellectual curiosity in his reader, his ambitions will have been fulfilled. The course meetings which he notes may prove worthless to the visitor as far as the accumulation of any concrete knowledge; taken alone they may be hopelessly complex or fruitlessly general. Should they arouse inquisitiveness concerning the particular subject under discussion, however, or any tangential treatment value may be measured only with reference to futurities...