Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest modern French men of letters died in October 12, at the age of 80 years. M. Gonod was officially entitled in the French government "Conseiller d'Etat", and was at one time a member of the French cabinet. The letters are very intimate in tone, and indicate that there was a warm friendship between the two men. Besides the letters, there are on exhibition some illustrated editions of some of Anatole France's shorter works. The letters have been lent to the library through the kindness of Mrs. E. B. Hill...
Except for vague reports of industrial revival, and a slightly firmer tone recently in the prices for industrial shares on the Stock Exchange, the past week-like previous weeks- has proved inconclusive. The railroads are coming into the season where their maximum tonnage is ordinarily hauled and, with good crops in prospect, should do rather well this autumn. Comparison of freight loadings this fall with the banner year of 1923 is, however, apt to be unfair and misleading. The exact crop situation is still undetermined, especially in corn and cotton, being still dependent upon the weather. It is mainly...
...This tone of sophistication now apparently so much the mode is better carried out in the editorials, especially the first, which explains the designation of the Freshman number as primarily mercenary: In "Kismet and Advice" too there is something genial in the bantering tone, something genuine, however unsound, in the philosophy. After all it is the function of the Advocate to express undergraduate ideas rather than to rival professional magazines. That is excuse enough for the very patronizing book review. It doesn't excuse, however, such unintelligible verse as the Sonnet. One always hesitates to confess missing the point...
...Mary Stuart, Oliver Crom well, Robert E. Lee and other dramatic histories, has completed a libretto for an opera, based on the life of Robert Burns, eternal Scots laureate poet. This screed is now in the hands of composer Ernest Austin, an Englishman, known chiefly for his colossal organ tone-poem, Pilgrim's Progress, in twelve huge parts. In the new work, Austin plans to make use of many Scotch folk-tunes, including several of the familiar melodies now associated with Burns' popular lyrics...
Nevertheless, the audiences at Pittsfield were large and enthusiastic (after their fashion) throughout the festival. They listened with intense and breathless concentration to the gradual development of embryo themes into tall, symmetrical skyscrapers of tone. When we add to this the fact that, in "popular" outdoor concerts this Summer, the concertos of Bach, the overtures of Beethoven and the symphonies of Brahms were among the best liked numbers, we can find ample refutation of the contentions of those deadheads who complain that U. S. Jazzmania is undermining the respect always due to the great triumvirate-"the three...