Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nineteenth century English painters, is particularly celebrated for the richness of his coloring. Ruskin described him as one of the "seven supreme colorists of the world." On the whole, abstraction is the keynote of his work, not only in his backgrounds, but also in the general harmony of tone. Details, however, he carries out with an appreciative exactitude...
...lady-pupil demonstrated the dance floor, gingerly moved her arms and head to "play" the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria. Theremin's pupils performed individually, on space-controlled instruments which have a tone-quality something like a cello's, and on keyboard instruments which are in principle the same but sound more like woodwinds. Finally the pupils performed altogether, sounded not unlike a group of children, a little uncertain as to pitch, blowing on combs and tissue paper...
...years old, and his elbow was crooked around a thin manuscript. A kindly neighbor in his country home had secured for him an invitation to meet Saint-Beuve, the great literary critic, and read some poetry to him. Saint-Beuve's library was soon vibrating to the warm emotional tone with which a young man reads poetry, particularly when the poetry happens to be his own. The great critic listened with nostalgic enthusiasm to a succession of vibrant and polished stanzas, and when the visitor had departed he turned to his desk and added in PostScript to a letter "There...
Aware of how public morbidity has been exploited by the publishers of such gang-war books as X Marks the Spot, Publisher Putnam is shrewd enough to attempt to elevate the moral tone of his volume by making it a "document against war." He hopes that peace societies will buy and distribute The Horror of It on the theory that war is the best propaganda against war. To add to the book's respectability, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Rockefeller pastor, and Carrie Chapman Catt were enlisted to write forewords on the peace theme. Dr. Fosdick...
About the play proper there is not much to be said. It is very British in tone, and deals with the complications that follow when a country vicar's daughter reverts to Victorian crinolines in order to win a journey to London, and, ultimately, a husband, together with her twin sister's less devious route to the same goals. The plot is rather more involved than is usual on the contemporary stage. It abounds in "character" parts which require considerable adroitness from the actors, and more experience, perhaps, than undergraduates can supply. There was little wit but much humor...