Word: text
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss restored the double eagle, without its crown. That year a band of Nazis broke into the Chancellery and assassinated Dollfuss. The Zeitung reported the trial and death of his murderer. When Adolf Hitler marched into Austria in 1938, the Zeitung printed the text of a federal law "restoring" Austria to the Reich...
...content to liberal education, namely that some people are constitutionally unable to study sciences, seems to be refuted by the experience of St. John's. The students were surprised that we thought some might have been caught on this snag of their all-required curriculum, and blamed "dead" text-books and teaching methods...
With a workable alphabet, interpretation corrected, and a collection of phrases which had been tested on a number of non-English-speaking Indians, Mr. Modley got out his posters, with text in Navajo and English...
...language of convention, almost of ritual, the very nature of which imposes a lofty dignity! One no longer feels dominated by the phrase, the literal meaning of the words. Cast in an immutable mold which adequately expresses their value, they do not require any further commentary. The text thus becomes purely phonetic material for the composer. He can dissect it at will and concentrate all his attention on its primary constituent element--that is to say, on the syllable. Was not this method of treating the text that of the old masters of the austere style? This...
...principles of the classical style. Present-day choral composers, Vaughan-Williams and Delius among them, have studied how words sound, and in their music have concentrated on the flow and meaning of language. Strawinsky in "Oedipus" uses the choral technique of the eighteenth century masters. Employing the text purely as musical material, he achieves his effects by distorting the words, changing their pronunciation, and shifting accents, without regard for the sense of a phrase or its dramatic importance...