Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This evening in Jordan Hall a concert of music for the violoncello by Jean Bedetti, first cellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and accomplished soloist. His program comprises Tscherepnine's "Rhapsodie Georgienne", Boulanger's Piece in C-sharp Minor and Cassado's "Olle mi Tierra...
...from them toward the future, proclaiming the present the happiest age the world has ever known. He comes with no specific answers to the ultimate problems of life. But he comes with the specific recognition that they are unanswerable. He sets truth in a new light by drawing a sharp line between what one knows, and what one is impelled by inclination merely to believe. Adjusting the conflict between science and religion, he makes plain that the central idea of the religion of the future will be the development of cooperative goodwill, "inspiring men to works of beauty, love...
...Modernist" controversy is the logical issue of Luther's successful revolt against authority in the sixteenth century. Since every new step in matters of importance is almost certain to crystallize the liberal and conservative tempers of men into rival camps of champions and opponents of the innovation, a sharp division between "Modernist" and "Fundamentalist" has taken place. The leading voices in the Presbyterian general assembly, upholding the existing order, strove to avoid the threatened cleavage in the church, and did not openly denounce the new tendencies. It saw that a tactful request to Dr. Fosdick to accept the Presbyterian articles...
...Stock Company is struggling earnestly this week with "Across the Street," one of the unmacadamized continuations of Main Street, and the innumerable satires on unprogressive small town life. But as we watched Glendale, this particular small town, being laughed at and bullied all over the stage, we felt a sharp tingle of resentment. Who knows, perhaps we were born in such a stagnant pool...
While the cotton planter rejoices, the textile-mill operator is faced with additional trouble. The cause in both cases is a sharp rise in cotton prices...