Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present Mrs. Sinclair Lewis declared: "Babbitt, romanticizing his business, is merely a comic and pathetic figure, but his female counterpart, the high-powered business woman, is the most terrifying figure that has ever emerged on any scene. Men may be forgiven . . . but women, with their sounder biological instincts, should know . . . that that's not life...
Wozzeck's plot is surprisingly old to be the perfect counterpart of Berg's ultra-modern score. It was written nearly 100 years ago by Georg Büchner, a German poet-scientist who had ideas far ahead of his time. Büchner died at 23 in Zurich where he earned a doctorate with a treatise on the nervous system of fish. He left three plays: Leonce and Lena, written while authorities were hunting him for his revolutionary sympathies; Danton's Tod, given in the U. S. a few seasons ago by Max Reinhardt...
...Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S. A., counterpart of the Church of England, in a resolution by its 1928 general convention was thankful for the ''growing recognition of the healing power of God.'' Faith clinics for nervous and mental disorders have been established at various churches under their bishops' approval. Patients are examined successively by a physician, a psychiatrist, a priest. The "confession" to the priest and his consolation are all that the patient often needs. They cure...
...Harvardman. He served with the A. E. F. in the Quarter masters Department. In 1924-26 he was attached to the Judge Advocate General's Department. He has twice represented the combined anti-Prohibition societies at Congressional hearings. In him the Crusaders hope to find the counterpart of Director Henry Hastings Curran of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
Gradually, it may be seen, that the acquisition of culture is becoming less dependent on the stiff pedagogy of the lecture platform and assuming a more informal, palatable shape. It has been realized that a pleasant environment conduces both to easier and more profitable study. This fine arts counterpart of the literary Farnsworth room will be a source of pleasure for the many who find the coldly formal atmosphere of the average library or museum distasteful...