Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Probably the common conception of Sibelius as half-man half-fjord is shaped also by the peculiar type of structure of his symphonies. A single movement in any eighteenth or nineteenth-century symphony followed a certain general pattern--the main theme was stated at the outset, in all its length and loveliness, then in succeeding measures was broken down and developed. Sibelius uses an exactly opposite approach. He takes fragments of theme, broken bits of melody, and toys with them for a while. He juggles them from instrument to instrument, combining them in a variety of ways. Gradually they...
Harvard is an academic corporation granted a charter under certain specific conditions. This is tantamount to a license to engage in the teaching profession, provided the University abides by the provisions of the charter. The appointment of Bertrand Russell is grossly out of accord with the conditions laid down...
...greatest problem today is to prevent the mass hysteria that may possibly envelop us if certain of our leaders continue to keep pushing us seemingly ever closer to conflict...
Said the Admiralty's official explanation: "Pronouncements by Italians in responsible positions and the attitude of the Italian press have been recently of such a character as to make it necessary for His Majesty's Government to take certain precautions. . . ." Next day the Admiralty doubled its precautions by sending an Allied fleet steaming eastward to Alexandria, where it could keep a sharp eye on the Italians at the mouth of the Aegean...
...Connely, after a hot blast against TNEC, suggested "innumerable instances where the administration of the laws as they now stand could be simplified to everyone's benefit without changing the law itself." Henning Prentis said: "Let government amend those laws that are obviously unfair to the businessman in certain particulars, such as the National Labor Relations Act, the Wage and Hour Act, and the two Securities acts." Yale & Towne's President W. Gibson Carey Jr., retiring Chamber president, declared: "Our governmental institutions, though somewhat perverted, are still intact," and added, "As is true in nearly every period, there...