Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Does not this scheme amount, in the last analysis, to a suggestion that examinations as such be scrapped? The English examination, although it requires a certain amount of preparation, demands, above all, a natural ability, parallel in many ways to that required by the scholastic aptitude test. Why have any examinations at all, this being the case, outside of the aptitude test? The answer is that there is another quality beside inherent aptitude that most colleges (even the progressive ones;) desire of their applicants: that is, through preparation. Reactionary though it may sound in this day of experimentation, the ability...
...rosy romantics who read Austin Dobson, collect bisque statuets of Pierrot & Columbine and attend lectures on the 17th Century harlequinade like to remember that there exists in the U. S. today a vivid healthy parallel of the true commedia dell' arte. Like the commedia, the Burlesque Show is extemporaneous, its libretto an assembly of long-remembered "bits" that have never been formally written down. Like the commedia, Burlesque has developed a cast of traditional characters with formalized costumes. The tramp, the Jew, the policeman, the soubrette and the straight man are as persistently unvarying as Harlequin, Pierrot, Columbine...
...gets to the heart of the matter without mincing words. As one who was expelled from the republic when a Protestant mission school was closed (Instituto del Pueblo, Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Feb. 15, 1926), I feel that TIME errs in that it does not state that there is a parallel between the present trouble in Mexico and that of the Orthodox Church and the Soviet Government some years ago. It is only natural that a revolutionary government should turn against organizations which were closely allied to the former regime....Mexico's "New Deal" may not be to the liking...
...last week there existed an amazing parallel this season between the football teams of Princeton University and White Plains (N. Y.) High School. White Plains' colors, like Princeton's, are orange and black. Princeton plays in Palmer Stadium; White Plains in Parker Stadium. White Plains uses Princeton cheers and songs almost word for word. Like Princeton's, White Plains' coaches this season have had more good players than they know what to do with. Each team had won five games, lost none. Each had scored exactly 188 points. Each had allowed its opponents three touchdowns...
...seduction" of the Scot continued until his whole outlook on life has come to parallel that of the Londonderrys. Fortnight ago Viscount Snowden revealed in his tart autobiography (TIME, Nov. 5) the Prime Minister's humorous admission that because of his metamorphosis "every Duchess in London will be wanting to kiss me." In what a Canadian paper promptly called the hen-run of British society dowagers the Marchioness of Londonderry is undisputed No. 1 hen to Scot MacDonald's chaste Chanticleer...