Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flying hint from here and there has lately indicated that the prestige of the pianoforte is failing. Last month, for instance, one Hugh Blaker wrote a letter to the London Spectator: "Sir, If it is correct that the popularity of the piano is declining, it will be the greatest stimulus to the appreciation of pure music since the Seventeenth Century. Almost all the vulgarity and over-cleverness of modern musical expression can be traced to the universal cult of the piano; this mechanical pattering . . . a hopeless jumble of misdirected energy. . . . There is nothing more laughable than to read a modern...
...taking the chance of looking a little foolish at times. But in the long run it is this very magnificence of setting which will insure its own success, and the success of moving pictures in general. Production can scarcely fail to feel the urge of such a stimulus...
...sermon given at many U. S. metropoles, Dr. Straton describes the evils Df dancing, which he regards as worse than "hugging on the sofa." Thus : "In the case of the dance, the two bodies are in closer proximity ! They are in rhythmical motion, one against the other, and the stimulus of music, as well as bodily con tact, is there to heighten the danger of wreck or ruin...
...case of the dance, the two bodies are in closer proximity! They are in rhythmical motion, one against the other, and the stimulus of music, as well as bodily contact, is there to heighten the danger of wreck or ruin...
...study of the American Revolution will receive great stimulus from the Report, for the wealth of new material may make possible at last a definite solution of long vexed problems. This short sketch cannot do more than give the barest outlines of the long struggle according to the fresh discoveries. No definite principle on either side can be distinguished, and the old shibboleths of Slavery and States' Rights must now be relegated to the limbo of historical illusions together with the Trade Routes of Troy. Both public and private documents prove that the white troops fought loyally for their masters...