Word: weft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale used its wit to no effectively organized end whatsoever. Time and again the debaters from New Haven suggested elements of a possible case, but time and again they failed to catch these up into the weft and warp of any sequential argument. It was plain that they sought only humor. Harvard, on the other hand, did present a case. Now, this discrepancy need not necessarily have been difficult to resolve. Had the governing council of the Harvard-Princeton-Yale triangle frankly declared not alone that it courted humor, but also that humor, or its absence...
...which vividly depicts events running fatefully toward an inevitable human cataclysm. While Montemezzi's score is not necessarily set to one particular melodious theme, nevertheless there is a succession of musical phrases that clothe the words and the thought behind them, their significance, their most subtle suggestion, in the weft and woof of expressive music...