Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third issue of Threshold well fulfills the purposes of its sponsor, the International Student Service. Designed to present "the best writing and thinking of students," this magazine gives most of its emphasis to the active role which college people can and are taking in national and international affairs. As the official ISS organ, Threshold undertakes to form a link between a large variety of political youth groups, while as a student magazine that includes among its editors such an outstanding liberal and educator as Alvin Johnson it, contains pertinent commentary upon contemporary education and national affairs...
...been pointed out for years, there is little that is equal in the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness between the worlds of upper and lower Park Avenue. Now, with a war for the preservation of this nonexistent concept on the nation's threshold, there is every likelihood that the long-awaited extension of democracy will come with the battles. If our guess is not wrong, in other words, there will be no "bloated rich" after...
...play had been executed after an opponent had tagged the passer. They finally lost the ball on their own five-yard line. A speedy and well executed play featuring a questionable block sent Montgomery of Straus through the middle of the line all the way to the threshold of the goal, where he passed to Beddle for the tally before being tagged. The game ended a few plays later with Straus intercepting a final desperate pass...
...Germans were on the threshold of Moscow; they might assault it, or they might by-pass it. They had just launched a great new drive in the south, aimed at Marshal Budenny's remaining forces around Rostov-on-Don. They had taken Odessa (see p. 26). They still throttled Leningrad. Everywhere they were exerting hasty but terrible pressure-"the last great decisive battle of the year," Hitler had called it. Tens of thousands of Ger mans had fallen, but still the locusts came...
...although harmonically Pierrot stands on the threshold of a brave new world, in spirit it takes its source from the work of Mahler. It is Post-Romantic, not as Verklarte Nacht is Post-Romantic, a jumble of Wagnerian cliches; but as Das Lied von der Erdeis Post-Romantic, lamenting a dying culture. The formal resemblance between Pierrot and Das Lied (they are both song cycles) goes deeper than mere coincidence. It links together in a fundamental way two works essentially decadent--where structural unity has been replaced by a series of separate emotional patterns, where the medium is over-refined...