Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rise of the Labor movement in England, in contrast to its absence in America, is due to the reversed conditions that obtain in the British Isles. Politics absorb most of the leaders, having great industries to shift for themselves. The coal-mining industry, that is one of the largest in England has been almost totally paralyzed by the rise in the development of water power and its use in manufacturing. The poverty in some of the coal districts is terrifying and almost unbelievable. In the southern part of Wales people are living on crusts of bread, amid conditions of filth...
...Political Parties of England and the United States: a Comparison and a Contrast," Professor Elliott. New Lecture Hall Government...
...Humble. In reproving contrast to The Noose (see below) stands a play fashioned from Dostoievsky's Crime and Punishment. Herein a Russian student is goaded to murder by what he considers a rational motive: to rid the world of a monster. His tortured philosophy fails to comprehend the final principle of rational thought, "the law that there shall be law." The story-teller fastens upon the young man's soul, wrings it, twists it, wracks it, as only a Russian can, or would. The play follows the novel's torments through hours of merciless misery. That...
This is particularly true at. Yale, where, quite aside from the chapel question, the Harvard type is seen as a lawless creature subject to the uninhibited impulses of ungoverned individuals, a deplorable contrast to the integrated Yale man with his strong community feeling. Viewed from New Haven, Harvard College seems a heterogeneous, uncoordinated, fortuitous aggregation of individuals with no more unity than the population of an apartment house; whereas Yale College--not Yale University, which is a very different thing, likes to sing about itself as "amiciusque and areas." And in Yale, where a simple piety seems more common...
...them because there is no incentive; under the voluntary system, for anybody who wants to read to do his reading there. No man goes to chapel except from a spontaneous desire to participate in public devotion; the atmosphere is more reverent than in the average church. And the contrast in manner between the voluntary worshipers at Harvard and the constrained worshipers at Williams is simply appalling. Harvard men come into the chapel as into the house of God; Williams men, hurried, swarming, newspaper-landen, come into it as into a Bronx Park express...