Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some pains to show the suffering that John Brown's fixation inflicted upon innocent people, even before the Civil War started. The raids in Bloody Kansas are as terrifying as the fire raid on London, and the clash between the two ideologies as apparently irreconcilable as their modern counterpart. By ending just before the outbreak of the Civil War, the picture underlines skillfully the deep-seated hatred and fear that caused it. And the comparison with the terrible present further points up an already gripping film...
Football talent in staging a mass migration to New Haven today, as every upperclass grid squad worthy of the name prepares to meet its Yale counterpart...
...harmonically and melodically and rhythmically irreproachable, still it is patently thin. It lacks the emotional guts that made a Mozart E-flat or Haydn 99th great. In short, it succeeds only as a technical imitation. Compare another early Schubert symphony, the Fourth or "Tragic," with its eighteenth-century counterpart, the Mozart G-minor. At first glance the two are strikingly alike. Their plan of construction is almost identical. Both are based on a type of melancholy flowing theme. But if you listen very long to the Schubert Fourth, what seemed its real charm has mysteriously gone up in smoke, leaving...
...Gaites) is a comedy about one of those summer theatres where a good rain on the roof renders the actors inaudible beyond the fifth row. The Stockton (Connecticut) Players are giving a triangle play called The Usual Three and, as might be expected, the onstage geometry has its offstage counterpart. The visiting leading lady is the ex-wife of the visiting leading man. She gradually realizes that this ham is still pretty much her meat...
Latest edition of the Elizabethan epics, complete with duel, is "The Sea Hawk," which is a long-winded account of Geoffrey Thorpe, a nautical counterpart of Jesse James, who drained the Spanish Main of every ingot of gold t'other side of Lisbon. He gets his fingers burned in Panama, re-crosses the Atlantic as a galley-slave, beats up on the Spanish crew, sails the galleon to England and single-handed saves the British Empire from the Spanish Armada. All of which goes to show that England cannot be invaded,--we-hope-we-hope-we-hope...