Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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NOBODY STARVES-Catharine Brody- Longmans, Green ($2).* No proletarian, no Communist, nobody has yet written a first-class proletarian novel. Nearest so far is John Dos Passos' The 42nd Parallel. Nobody Starves starts out as though it might ring a new bull's-eye but it turns out to be just another ricochet. Though proletarian authors and capitalist critics would never agree on what makes a good novel, even a proletarian would want a novel to be more than a case history. Nobody Starves is a painstaking, truthful-sounding case history...
Aside from the epistemological photography of which Clair is a master, the swaggering, lilting, scurrying action of the plot perambulates the great problem of Society in the Machine Age. The prison and the factory, could any one mistake that parallel? Yet this is a parody that parodies itself. Nothing is taken seriously but the friendship of Louis and Emile, whose adventures in gently inept romance and business melodrama, respectively, run hilariously together: and since this is no very serious matter, either, we are never required to depart from the tone established with such precision in the early scenes. M. Clair...
...further parallel suggests itself. "Rugged Individualism" in this country seems to be on the decline (though competition for jobs is stronger than ever). Extra curricular activities, though still powerful, have some of their pristine glory. Will the College Plan do to the one what the passing of the frontier has done to the other? Are not both the symbols of the philosophy of competition a philosophy that has seen better days? Yale News...
...been the boast of an acquaintance who likewise took History 1 as a Sophomore, that an honor grade might be attained with little or no attendance at lectures. The close parallelism (or perhaps a better term might be found, for parallel lines never meet!) of the lectures and reading make much of the work pure repetition. Only a very few exceptions, notably Professor Webster's masterpiece on the History of Modern Britain and the British Empire, discuss tendencies and movements, thus introducing a spirit of life which cannot in the nature of things be derived from readings alone. And surely...
...price of hogs for the State did not rise, dropped instead 25?. The Holiday idea trickled across the Missouri into Nebraska, made further headway in the Dakotas. Illinois. Minnesota, where Governor Floyd B. Olsen favored aiding the strikers with martial law. Separate from the Reno movement but parallel with it in purpose was last week's milk strike at Sioux City. Local dairymen were in despair about the $1 per cwt. they were being paid. That meant about 2? per qt. They too banded together to withhold milk from Sioux City distributors. Joining the other pickets along the roads...