Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student going to France is permitted to carry 20,000 French francs, but a traveller entering Belgium is allowed unlimited amounts in Belgian francs. a tourist going to Ireland can carry unlimited amounts of Irish currency, but only five pounds in English money; yet both currencies circulate in Ireland with equal value...
...Mary Britton Miller took stock. She had written five volumes of poems and a rather good novel, In the Days of Thy Youth, a story of a deep attachment between twins. Yet Mary Miller had never produced a sound critical success, had never come close to authoring a bestseller. Was she, after all, just another New England spinster with literary inclinations...
...action of the climactic murder scene, with Mother Danforth's family gathered around the Christmas tree, is powerfully done, without a trace of fuzz on the pen or fog in the eye. Yet Miss Bolton's is a lyric, not a dramatic talent. Whenever she tries to speak through a character who is not her own kind and her own sex, she loses her firm tone of voice. But, speaking for herself, Author Bolton has much to say. She says it in a style which Mary Britton Miller should have tried sooner...
...Rise is no great shakes either as a novel or a sociological essay. But it manages to stand up-and to stand out-as another rich expression of Robert Graves's fantastical mind. To laugh in the face of his Goddess is only natural; but without this pure yet beastly muse Graves would probably not be what he emphatically is-one of the finest poets of the Late Christian Epoch...
...heap superlatives on G. Wallace Woodworth. There is probably no more challenging work in all musical literature than the B Minor Mass, and enormous ambition and perseverance are required to undertake it at all. In addition, Woodworth's philosophy of Bach is almost the antithesis of Koussevitzky's yet he trained the Chorus to respond with complete accuracy to the Conductor's direction. This achievement is even more remarkable when you realize that Woodworth had to substitute for Koussevitzky in the only complete rehearsal with the Orchestra...