Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Shubert, Symphony in minor, Beethoven, Concerts for Pianoforte in E flat...
...minor, Schumann. Siegfried Idyll, Wagner. Symphony in E flat "Eroica...
Schubert-Liszt-Funeral March in E flat minor...
...latter part of 1886 the Lampoon began to degenerate. It began to lose that distinctive quality mentioned so often, which is hard to describe, but which one feels to exist the moment he begins to look through an old issue. The editorials began to be flat and vapid; the jokes harder and harder to see; the bright verse more and more scarce. The double page and then even the full-page pictures disappeared and small society pictures with jokes (?) that would fit any one of them equally well, were substituted instead. Finally, to complete the destruction of its ancient character...
...complaints about Harvard indifference are stale, flat, and alas! unprofitable. We all condemn selfishness in our neighbors and condone it in our ourselves. That is human nature, and Sam Slick says there is much human nature in all men; but we specialize in selfishness, and, like the hub of the wheel, move slowest; and if we progress at all it is by sheer force of inertia...