Word: akin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taking Aim at Job Training" [Dec. 18]: critics of this program have a point of view akin to that of gold miners in the old West who threw away "troublesome stuff," which later turned out to be silver. On Jan. 22, 1973, Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier will go up against what was the human equivalent of "troublesome stuff": George Foreman. He was a juvenile delinquent when he heard a public-service "spot" suggesting Job Corps as a solution. He came to Litton Industries' Parks Job Corps Center, and began working toward a high school diploma, which he earned...
...most normal of times. While ten years ago the Peace Corps, SNCC and the great idealistic causes diverted young graduates from the mainstream, as time went on the war diverted the mainstream itself. What the war inspired with its relentless mayhem, impervious to all protest was an emotion akin to traitorousness. And partisan reporters pushing de-mystification on all fronts multiplied that sensation...
Perseus gets the chance to recapture his youth when Athena re-Gorgonizes Medusa. Only this time Perseus has to pull off the caper without the old tricks -winged shoes, helmet of invisibility, etc. The problem is akin to that of an experienced novelist who cannot use old techniques to write a new novel, and Barth seems to get quite a chuckle...
...drone of the motorbikes drowns any conversation. With long hair often past their shoulders, they are indistinguishable from their fans. Voluptuous young girls run through the pits, their bosoms overhanging as they reach out with the screwdrivers and wrenches that are requested by drivers' mechanics. Akin to the grouples of the rock music world, the girls are attracted by the male and his motorized symbol...
...profile by candlelight on a cave wall. In the centuries since then, the opposite view of sexual roles in art has prevailed-namely, that the heights of creation are inaccessible to women, whose misfortune it is to possess something called a "feminine sensibility." This is largely a fantasy, akin to the one found in literature (see BOOKS). But every woman artist at work today still has to contend with...