Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...essence of Swedenborg's account of his revelation is that things spiritual have their counterpart in things physical. From God emanates a divine sphere, which appears in the spiritual world as a sun, and from this spiritual sun again proceeds the sun of the natural world. In God there are three infinite "degrees" of being, and in man and all things corresponding, three finite and created degrees. They are love, wisdom, use; or end, cause, and effect. The final ends of all things are in the Divine Mind; the causes of all things are in the spiritual world...
This American counterpart of Expressionism--or whatever other ism you want to call it--is of course a part of the whole Revolt from Realism which has taken so many different forms as we have emerged from the Nineteenth into the Twentieth Century. At first it was only in the dramatic representation of dreams within the plays that our dramatists dared to present that fanciful and fantastic caricature of American life which we find for example in the dream scenes of "The Beggar on Horseback" or "The Crime in the Whistler Room". But in "Processional" and "The Moon...
...Here we have an American college sport that as yet has no counterpart in the professional world. It is played between teams of young men of similar age and type. Its science is the cumulative experience of years of experiments. It can be coached by its own players or recently graduated players, as we found out at Yale years ago, just as well as by resident specialists if the continuity of its technique is preserved...
...indeed a brave man, who would voluntary bare his neck to the axes of the sentimentalists, by suggesting that the Indian civilization has little to offer its more modern American counterpart, but such seems to be the case. Collections of old arrowheads, native drawings, intricate ceremonial dances--and there is little else. Even their contribution to the nation's scantly stock of fold-lore is imperceptible...
...graduates of English universities are forever being held up to American college students as paragons of academic perfection. Among their virtues is cited an undeniable readiness in public expression and repartee, which is fostered by such open forums as the Oxford Union. In the belief that a counterpart of this phase of English university life was needed at Harvard, the Debating Union was organized by a group of men who graduated last year. Whether it will prove a permanent addition to Harvard institutions depends upon the enthusiasm with which a new college generation carries it on. An inexcusably late start...