Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to Master Perkins, Trottenberg felt that the proposal represented "not a badly reasoned conservation of funds." Because the dry dorm crew removes only "surface dust," and that once a week, Trottenberg could not see its importance. "The cleanliness of the student room should depend on the student himself," he commented. Trottenberg plans to keep the idea under consideration...
...first half of the evening found the Choral Society alternating between uneasiness and an unusually lacklustre manner, with even their dependable tone sounding either shrill or dead. By contrast, the second part exhibited the familiar spirit and high quality of the chorus, especially in three beautiful Welsh folksongs arranged with taste and imagination by the Society's conductor, Elliot Forbes...
...only by contrast, but in their own right, it seemed to me that the other dances were rather dreary affairs. The first, and much the longest, was based on Thurber's "The Wonderful O." Read by an anonymous narrator, the story was fun to hear, but it was interrupted at intervals by dancing, much to its detriment. The danced portions were sung by a small chorus competently led by Emily Romney. Stephen Addiss' music contented itself for the most part with a two-part chanting of the text which was serviceable but monotonous, only occasionally relieved by moments of lyric...
...University has dramatized the importance it attaches to the new Visual Arts Center in the most effective way possible by choosing Le Corbusier as its architect. One can expect with certainty that the new building will be an original and stimulating creation, a contrast to some of the more recent local construction...
...stream of Western thought and culture," declared London's Times Literary Supplement last week in a weighty (28 articles) survey of U.S. culture. The U.S. architecture is "poetic, structural, febrile." Abstract art now powerfully expresses U.S. imagination-"sometimes grotesque, often naive, but never pale, never passive." Realism, by contrast, seems now "like a political party defeated in a landslide." As for U.S. patrons: "No social group in history has been so willing to spend money on the arts and sciences...