Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This system of blundering about in a world of obsolete laws, political contradictions, and mid-Victorian conceptions of industry and trade is a tragic setting for a book, and even the numerous amusing anecdotes and descriptions of the Vagaries of the British mental process cannot make the cynical tone which implies that these things are true, and pass for normal on the opposite shore of the Atlantic. The writer concentrates on the vast changes in the social life of present day England, as contrasted with the static, almost unwordly condition of public life and commerce, and does not go nearly...
...strangely enough, the music remains fresh and interesting. Now and then a good tone makes you forget the creaky old plot. The pleasant old waltz, "My Hero," comes untarnished. And so, though there is no wit left in "The Chocolate Soldier," there is song, song that this reviewer would rather have rendered instrumentally as Biergartenmusik wafting blithely across the Pilsener foam...
...licenses for the Republic Theatre andthe flea circuses, dime museums, and minor side shows which thrive nearby. Reformer John S. Sumner, Director Henry Moskowitz of the League of New York Theatres, counsel for Forty-Second Street Association and others said that such enterprises lowered the neighborhood's moral tone, depreciated property values, gave the whole city a bad name. Commissioner Geraghty seemed inclined to agree. He said that his own inspectors had been subjected to improper proposals after watching a burlesque show...
...flaws of human contrivance did not escape him: he shunned Bronson Alcott's Brook Farm, not from a lack of interest, but because the communal ideal was repugnant Emerson was an individualist. Intellectually the quiet minister of Concord was a swashbuckler whose doctrine his neighbors feared, but "the tone was so well-bred withal that much dangerous doctrine was overlooked for the manner of the presentation." Such was the man who swayed rustic and school-girl, scrub-woman and Thomas Carlyle: now he rests ignored by a busy world in the quiet grave at Concord...
...Leitmotifs. Inspired by Wag ner, he wrote music of stirring beauty. But most of his later, more original works have struck laymen as hideous and obscure. They have had a certain technical interest in that they have grown out of extensive experiments with chromatics and the twelve-tone scale. They illustrate new elaborately propounded principles which many a young ultra modern is endeavoring to cultivate. But such cerebral mat ters have little interest for the rank & file of orchestra subscribers. Philadelphians were plainly grateful last week for new music they could understand. With the 532 performers they applauded vigorously...