Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soprano solo in the U.S. premiere of Prokofiev's cantata, Alexander Nevsky. Says Jennie: "All of a sudden everything came to me." After her Town Hall debut in 1943, the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson wrote: "Miss Tourel's conquest . . . was . . . without any local parallel since Kirsten Flagstad's debut at the Metropolitan Opera House some nine seasons...
...that of pride in an outstanding and continuing educational tradition, and civic pride in the exploits of University officials who not only maintain this tradition but contribute much to the national seene in the sciences, literature and even politics. The ascendancy of President Conant to national stature brought a parallel surge of interest in alumni affairs. A strong hand in Cambridge means stronger ties between the capital of Harvard interest and the 82,000 graduates spread all over the world...
Supposedly 'a parallel in tempo to John Gay's 'Beggar's Opera'" (it will be entitled "Beggar's Holiday" during the New York run), the play deals with the insouciant exploits of one Macheath, a lady-killing crook. During the course of the show, Mae holes up at Miss Jenny's maison de joie, marries Polly Peachum--the daughter of a humorously crooked politician, and beguiles the keys to his cell door from the jailer's daughter--all in order to avoid the inevitable ending which awaits him in the arms of the electric chair...
...catholicity of taste in headgear, wore 32 assorted little hats. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, drew a distressed tut from the British trade paper, Tailor and Cutter, which ran two pictures of him. "Take the picture above," wrote the editor. "Quite nice. The stripes run parallel to the edge of the lapel. . . . Now look at the larger photograph. Oh! ... the trousers are too short. . . . The over coat is not a very pleasant sight. . . . And why is[he] so careless with his buttons and flaps?" Muttered Tailor and Cutter: ";We are very disappointed in Mr. Herbert Morrison...
...illustrates what may happen again. Rentals rose from 25 to 150 per cent in that one year. Within three years, they had gone up 312 per cent, due both to the lack of controls and the shortage of houses. In most ways, the country finds itself in a parallel situation today; indeed, in the housing shortage a problem exists which is now much more critical than after World War I. This condition alone makes the maintenance of rent-controls imperative, for even when prices of other commodities decline, rents will not follow in proportion because of the ten-year backlog...