Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pathetic Symphony is a strong rock to which any type of concert cancling and be sure of success. Nowhere else did Tschalkowsky so overwhelmingly give forth the somber Russion feeling, and at the same time express the sadness of the world. The work is pregnant with the gloom of Schopenhauer and the whole nineteenth century on the Continent; but its mood is one that seizes the present too, and shouts the futility of human striving. There are few works in music more universally moving...
...usual during the season when football monopolizes the sports columns, the editors of the rest of the paper find every bit of information about colleges particularly appetizing. In this vicinity especially, the front pages went quite berserk over the meat furnished by yesterday's Carnegie Foundation report. To be sure, the columnists and editorial writers generally concurred in the what-of-it attitude merited by much of this report of conditions prevalent months or years ago; but the treatment as news is, after all, what makes the impression of the story, and even conservative papers badly exaggerated its significance...
...will to all intents and purposes be much the same as they were last year. The Big Green outfit will be essentially untried, and consequently probably somewhat overrated; the Crimson will be conceded to have lots of power, but there will still be some who won't be quite sure where it will lead to. And there won't be one out of a hundred who will dare to make anything like a positive prediction about the outcome of the Stadium clash...
...Connell, Harding, and Ogden are leading the race for the end positions. The first of these is sure of holding down one wing, while Harding and Ogden, with the former having the edge, will fight it out for the other end berth. Douglas, regular wingman before his injury, will be in condition to play, but his layoff will relegate him to a reserve role. B. Ticknor will be at center. Captain Barrett and W. Ticknor will undoubtedly start, but whether they will be assigned tackle or guard posts in an unanswered question...
...Theater Guild's production of "Porgy" returns to the Hollis, after a year, with no loss in its striking effectiveness. It is a folk play, but without the easy movement of plot which that expression might imply; local color, to be sure, is there, but woven with skill into the fabric of a tremendously swiftmoving drama; and, moreover, the folk atmosphere is not mere adornment, but has a vital part in the development of the plot. A red-coated orphanage band leading the inhabitants of Catfish Row on a picnic; a quack lawyer in a top hat, selling Porgy...