Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition with Union City, N. J., Bloomington, Ill., Hollywood, Calif, and a half-dozen other U. S. towns and cities which hold some sort of Passion Play, Zion, Ill. last week set itself up for the third year as the "American Oberammergau." In Zion's rambling Shiloh Tabernacle on Palm Sunday opened the Zion Passion Play, bigger and longer than ever before. It will be performed every Sunday through June and this year for the first time the show will cost...
...scenic beauties of the United States he cannot say too much. The Grand Canyon inspires him. He characterizes it as "a sort of landscape Day of Judgment . . . not a show place, a beauty spot, but a revelation . . ." The beauties and peace of Southern California appear in his mind in bas relief against the horrors of the artificiality and superficiality which he finds in Hollywood...
...first step towards a middle-of-the-road government is the cessation of hostilities under a board of arbitration. Immediately the foreign soldiers would tend to leave, for events show that Italy and Germany do not care what sort of a government is set up as long as it is not Communism, and that Russia feels similarly about Fascism. There is some chance that eight months of war have not wiped out all bases for a compromise by both sides aided in their negotiations by a third impartial country. As bait for maintenance of a moderate government and a real...
...spoiling my taste and understanding. . . ."-A passage on Byron is almost a giveaway: "Don't you or do you admire Don Juan? perhaps you like the serious parts best but I have been credibly informed that Lord B. is not really a great poet, have taken a sort of dislike to him when serious and only adore him for his wit and humour. I am by no means a great poetry reader. . . ." Later it comes out that "as my dear Keats did not admire Lord Byron's poetry as many people do, it soon lost its value...
...their principal effort of this sort, the authorities have every year permitted three undergraduates to serve on the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. This committee is the highest tribunal in Harvard athletics. Dealing with general and administrative policies and problems, it has recognized the importance of the undergraduate viewpoint. But that is only half the story, for the undergraduate members of this body are chosen solely from major sport ranks. The minor sport man and all those scores of students whose names never get in the headlines, but who have definite views which should be known, are completely...