Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Happened at the Inn (French counterpart of You Can't Take It with You; TIME...
Said Stars and Stripes: "The aristocracy-peasantry relationship characteristic of our armed forces has a counterpart nowhere else in American life." To the argument that the system is needed for battlefield discipline, Stars and Stripes retorted: "Such privileges and preferences actually destroy respect for rank, undermine morale and efficiency...
...fantastic, melodramatic little comedy about a French provincial family named Goupi, the film hints broadly that beneath its sparkling surface lies an allegory. Just what the allegory is never becomes clear. But It Happened at the Inn is funny-in a subtler way than its American counterpart, You Can't Take It with You. The Goupis are a family of ferocious, mildly balmy individualists who squabble incessantly among themselves but present a miraculously united front to the world...
...great category of liberal minds-the scientists-came to make the atom bomb and how liberal mankind came to permit them to. He is explaining how you and I come to be here in this vast emptiness with night falling. But he can only explain. He cannot offer a counterpart, in the language and feeling of the atomic age, of the words of the Psalmist...
...C.C.C. was divided into field units, each headed by a Chinese lieutenant general who was advised by an American brigadier general or a colonel. The field units branched off to army, divisional and regimental headquarters, each with its Chinese commander shadowed by an American counterpart. In the lowest rank G.I.'s taught their Chinese equals the operation of Garand rifles, flamethrowers...