Word: akin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years Wilkerson, who was charged with illegal possession of dynamite and criminally negligent homicide, avoided arrest. But last week in Manhattan she turned herself in. At 35, she is a different kind of symbol from the one she had been in 1970. Now she seemed spiritually akin to the Japanese soldiers who stumbled out of Pacific jungles 20 years after the end of World War II, still vowing to win for the Emperor...
...order to suggest that individual friendships, like other temporal relationships, should be subsumed in Christianity. Yet Jesus loved John, and even Paul had friends. Whatever grand and lofty purpose friendship may serve, it is still most clearly recognized as something that one individual gives to another, something generous, expansive, akin to love but not exactly love. In a way, it is more difficult than love because it often makes moral demands that love overlooks...
...proffered reason for Harvard's calm, as explained by Armistead, is that the University has "always abided by city zoning anyway, so the new law won't make any difference." That statement, repeated by every Harvard government relations official, is akin to Derek Bok insisting self-righteously that he has never flapped his arms and flown away--true but meaningless. When pressed, Harvard admits that the reason they have never broken city zoning is because it has never before applied to them. For example: Harvard is currently converting 7 Summer Rd., a residential apartment building, to office space...
With that information, Gajdusek, who won a Nobel Prize for his efforts, uncovered a new kind of pathogen, a slow virus that may be akin to those that cause other degenerative diseases, like multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease. The solution for the Fore was a government mandate that keeps the dead out of the stew pots; by the end of the century the Laughing Death should be eradicated. Gajdusek's discovery may have brought a step closer a solution for victims of other slow viruses as well...
...imagination. Says he: "When I was in film school I went back and saw how awful some of those serials were. I began to analyze what in them could have excited me so much as a child, and I realized that they were a form of fantasy much more akin to mythology and fairy tales than anything else. I started getting involved with such stories and wondered what their purpose was in society. I came to the conclusion that the last real fairy tale we had had was the western...