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...program, as a sop to Occidentals, a Chinese pianist played Chopin. By contrast, Chopin's music sounded anxious, hurried, and too full of sound...
...fanatical idealist-a character into whom Katharine Cornell finds it almost impossible to breathe life. On the other hand, Anouilh's Creon is at once the least Sophoclean and the most successful person in the play. He is an astute, cynical worldling whose decree is merely a sop to the crowd and whose desire is to save his niece's life; and he is played with chilling elegance by Sir Cedric Hardwicke. If Antigone has ethics on her side, Creon has logic on his-which may explain why the Nazis raised no squawk...
...Quaker and nurseryman. Jess thought he had everything life could give, except a chance to listen to music. His wife, Eliza, was a minister-"good-looking, as female preachers are apt to be." But like most of the local Quakers, Eliza believed that music was "a popish dido, a sop to the senses, a hurdle waiting to trip man in his upward struggle." She had to give Jess a pretty stern nudge in the ribs every seventh month, fourth day (Fourth of July), when Amanda Prentis hurdled the high notes of The Star Spangled Banner...
...Agriculture last week lifted the parity price for raw cotton to a new high of 21.58? a Ib.-the dizziest peak since 1920. The Department was forced to boost the price under the Bankhead Amendment, which requires adjustment of the parity price. Uultimately (and at pyramided price increases) this sop to cotton growers' inefficiency will be passed on to the consumer...
...Treaty of San Stefano, imposed by the victorious Russians, gave Macedonia to Bulgaria, practically converted the Balkans into a Russian-dominated great Bulgaria, with an Aegean coast line. Later, at the Congress of Berlin, Britain and Austria forced the Tsar to disgorge most of his Balkan booty. As a sop, they let him keep strategic Kars in Asia Minor (see below...