Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...best works are songs, whether written for voice or not. Nevertheless, the Requiem and Pelleas and Melisande are enough in themselves to prove Faure's effectiveness in music for orchestral and choral groups. It is true that he often gives himself over to lyricism at the expense of formal considerations, but his ingenuity in harmony and melody is often sufficient, especially in smaller works, to overbalance his looseness in structure...
...Paris last week, in a reception room of the Polish Embassy, 17 prominent Poles met as a newly formed National Council of the Polish Government-in-Exile. Council members sat in two rows facing each other, just as in the 16th-Century Polish Senate. President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz appeared in formal morning dress. Premier General Wladyslaw Sikorski in full uniform with decorations. No member of the old Polish Parliament or the old Polish Government which in September fled in haste and disgrace from Warsaw was present...
...three days Stockholm awaited Russia's reply to the Swedish protest. A hard answer might bring war. Nobody realized this more clearly than Joseph Stalin. When the answer came, it was a formal apology...
...applied to any one of the Aztec pieces entitled "Standing Figure Of A Man" as well as to anything done in this century or the last. But there is a difference: the Aztec and Mayan works have innate expressionism whereas most works produced by contemporary men have a formal expressionism. The former arises from within and is neither a commentary nor judgment upon actual people or events; the latter, that which is prevalent in some circles today, carries with it the personal condemnation or approbation of the artist concerning everything imaginable, and this opinion is imposed, by means...
...work of individual dramatists, it is as yet impossible to render any final judgments as to the ultimate meaning of their work in terms of the American drama. If Mr. Krutch has chosen to approach his subject as critic rather than as professor, he has done wisely. The formal history which will eventually be produced at some university will perhaps have the advantage of a greater temporal perspective, but its writer will be hard put to it to match the keenness of Mr. Krutch's critical judgments or the excellence of his writing...