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...Carlos Salzedo's arrangements of Troubadour airs, Ernest Bloch's Quatuor a Cordes. Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times wrote: "It is not possible to refer dispassionately to the complete misrepresentation of the noble music of Bach. To this music of Gothic design and Apocalyptic splendor the audience was privileged to behold the strange struttings, posings, leapings, of a man at the base of an elevation upon which and about which were grouped seven maidens in red tights. This performance was a caricature and profanation -unintended, of course, but none the less a profanation of great...
...access of light; fraternity houses and senior-society tombs were built as Attic temples, Saracenic strongholds. Tudor mansions, Venetian palaces, and sacred edifices of the classical revival. Every minor building became other-wordly, enchanting in its antique quaintness, its cumbersome and happy extravagance. The donors were tickled by the splendor, hardened business men felt holy when erecting imitation abbeys to their own memory; and Yale's cultural stock went...
...justice has a splendor that is grim...
Should citizens of the West become West-conscious (as Vancouver seems to have become), should they sink their rival ries and go as a unit to the rescue of the East, a new commercial era of unimaginable splendor would unquestionably dawn - unless the East should refuse to cooperate...
Eugene O'Neill?"Who has done nothing much in the American drama save to transform it utterly in ten or twelve years from a false world of neat and competent trickery to a world of splendor, fear and greatness...