Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creative spirit, with a future of his own making before him. Merging as it does into symbolism, the story can hardly be more closely described without making it seem either recondite or sentimental. Just as there is no verbal transcription for a symphony, so there is no literary parallel for this cenematic symphony. The playgoer might single out the banquet scene, where brilliant montage conveys the sense of hollowness and hypocrasy: or he might mention the marvellous hospital sequence, where the activity of the doctors is punctuated by recurring close-ups of the nurses' eyes, competent, steadily watching. But these...
Last week the Christian Century made further comment. The impression on the audience "is that of trains passing each other at high speed in opposite directions on parallel tracks. The real issues are not joined at all between Catholic and Protestant, between Christian and Jew, or between believer and agnostic. The topics are phrased so as to enclose each speech in a separate compartment, completely insulated from the others...
...commedia dell'arte, the drama hat set the patterns for Harlequin, Columbine, Pierrot and Pantaloon, is a favorite subject for romantic poets, water color painters, and lecturers on The Drama. They are apt to forget that there exists in the U. S. a lusty native parallel of the commedia to teach esthetes what a real old Harlequinade was like: the Burlesque Show. Like the commedia before the days of the great Debureau, Burlesque is vulgar entertainment catering to the masses, often frankly obscene. Like the commedia, Burlesque is based on "bits" that have been handed down from one troupe...
Georgia's current drought and forest fires are without parallel in the State's history. Mean total rainfall in November was .04 in., surpassed only by the .01-in. low of November, 1922 which, however, was not preceded by such weeks of drought as this year. Fires cut a line through the middle of the State to the coast. Many people were killed in automobile accidents in the smoke pall. Airplane operations were resumed only last week. Wild life suffered badly. Reported the United Press last week: "Bird life including every known species from sparrow to mammoth owls...
...course, we'll fill the lecture-hall to the doors. And there is hope for a rebirth of interest in the world's doings. One has only to be witness to the hush of curious concern that falls over the History I assembled multitude when the lecturer draws a parallel to the Middle Ages from some recent world-event. Beverley M. Bowie...