Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan drama season always seemed to open on Labor Day, with the late John Drew descending a grand staircase of the Empire Theatre in something by Arthur Wing Pinero. No such impressive starting gun has ever inspired the art world, but for the past two years a modest parallel has existed in the annual shows of Government-inspired art held in Manhattan early in September. At these exhibitions taxpayers are given some idea of what unemployed artists and others on WPA rolls are producing for their money...
Nevertheless, said Harvardman Lewis Gannett, Class of 1913 and book reviewer for the New York Herald Tribune: "A rough check of my own class disclosed a surprisingly close parallel. . . . Can it be that the rise of the father, in American life, tends to mean the decline...
...TIME of Aug. 17 in commenting on the probable meeting of President Roosevelt and Candidate Landon in Kansas soon, you state in substance that oldsters had to go back to 1896 for a parallel historical precedent - the accidental meeting of McKinley and Bryan in a small Nebraska town...
Appearing complicated to the point of bewilderment at first glance, this narrative method emerges in The Big Money as ingeniously simple. Basis of the book is the life stories of a few men and women whose careers converge or parallel each other. Some, like the promising but spineless Harvard intellectual, Dick Savage, have figured prominently in the previous volumes. Red-faced, hard-drinking Charley Anderson barely appeared in The 42nd Parallel; Margo Dowling, dissolute and disillusioned cinema queen, makes her debut in The Big Money. Dos Passos' method is to follow one of his characters through some meaningful experience...
...correspondent and free lance in Spain, after the Armistice, he wrote his second, Three Soldiers, which made him a name in the U. S. with its four-letter realism. With Manhattan Transfer (1925), in which he started experimenting with the form he later perfected in The 42nd Parallel, his literary reputation was solidly established. Besides his novels, he has written two books of travel, a volume of essays, a volume of verse, three plays, translated Poet Blaise Cendrars from the French and adapted a novel by Pierre Louys for the cinema (The Devil Is a Woman...