Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no greater state than Kansas. No mountains distort its surface. Its winding rivers are as precisely parallel as its level roads. The grain in its flat fields waves as if marcelled. Its citizens lead lives of regularity. Last week Kansans had as great a shock as if the Rocky Mountains had suddenly risen from their harvest fields...
Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, will deliver the first talk on Astronomy with demonstrations and slides on July 13 at 4 o'clock. At the same time the following week, H. E. Bent, assistant professor of Chemistry, will outline parallel development in his fields. Each lecture will be accompanied either with experiments and demonstrations or lantern slides. On July 27, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, is scheduled to give a similar talk. F. H. Crawford, Assistant professor, will give the lecture on Physics on August 3, and Professor Roderick MacDonald will conclude the series on August...
Author Romains' method is reminiscent of John Dos Passos' (The 42nd, Parallel; 1919) and Aldous Huxley's (Point Counter Point), but he refuses to admit that they have influenced him: "I salute these experiments; I admire them on occasion. . . . But I salute them as younger comrades, and with some sense of priority." Though he has been actually working on Men of Good Will for only twelve years, he has been preparing for it since 1905. Of the 65-odd characters introduced in this first volume, few are related, many do not even meet. As each chapter carries...
...described the Canton expedition as "futile." There were other facts to suggest some truth in the Cantonese charges. General Hwang Fu, generally considered friendly to Japan, rushed to Peiping as an emissary from Chiang, presumably to dicker for peace. Word reached Tientsin last week of a Chinese army marching parallel to and cooperating with the Japanese troops. Its commander is a General Li Lichen who raised the old five-barred flag, first flag of the Chinese Republic, in Chinwangtao in March, is supposed to have been picked by Japan to head still another North China puppet state. This...
...Author. Though agitated left-wing critics have made much pother about the rise of U. S. "proletarian literature," few respectable examples have so far come to light. To the sparse shelf that holds John Dos Passes' unfinished trilogy (The 42nd Parallel, 1919) critics can now add the beginning of Josephine Herbst's. Her purpose is orthodox: to show the collapse of the "bourgeois" class. The second volume will bring her Trexler family up to the War; the third to 1933. Like Dos Passes, Authoress Herbst is not a member of the Communist Party, though her sympathies are even...