Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This "mood effect" of music is a subject which, has always interested musicians and has recently been investigated quite extensively by psychiatrists always it is the mood. Though many experiments under adverse conditions have indicated that music does have specific suggestive effects, musicians are inclined to doubt that there is any effect at all. In fact, many of our most important contemporary musicians deny the power of music to suggest even the most general feelings and motions. Stravinsky, for example, goes so far as to say that music is and always has been an essentially non-expressive...
...writing the book contains, among other things: several of his letters to English Publisher Grant Richards over Dubliners-as shriveling a statement of the artist-publisher situation as has ever seen print; an extraordinarily beautiful letter he wrote to Ibsen when he was 19; two invective poems which suggest Swift's and are quite as good. One of them, addressed to the Dublin littérateurs he held in such contempt, ends with these proud lines...
...what trouble followed Sept. 1929 few U. S. citizens need to be told. Mr. Allen tells it with enough street-corner detail to suggest its charms. In 1930-31, for instance, steamship lines began running week-end cruises, or saturnalia, outside the Twelve Mile Limit. Apple salesmen shivered on wintry corners. Free wheeling was added to necking as a thing to do with cars. Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries ("Don't take it serious, it's too mysterious"*) expressed the nonchalant response to Depression. Bobby Jones had a Manhattan triumph after winning the British Amateur...
...acquainted with Faure chiefly through his songs and the Requiem, but the Pelleas and Melisande suite is one of the most distinctive and beautiful of his works. The graciousness and reserve which characterize all his music might suggest a retiring personality in Faure himself, but in reality he was a potent force in the shaping of the nationalistic French school. As an influential figure in the various Parisian musical societies and in the Conservatoire, Faure was able to impress his distinctly French ideals on the young musicians of the time...
...Piccadilly provost marshal remanded to Bow Street one Rev. Maurice Kenal Exham, 71, former Dorset vicar, for "wearing a military uniform calculated falsely to suggest that he was an Army captain." Quick was the vicar to explain: 1) the family of his 12th-Century ancestor, Sir Richard Exham, had been granted the right to wear military uniform "in perpetuity" by Henry II for aid in the Irish troubles; 2) the right had never been abrogated...