Word: parallel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost in the skies on its way to orbit last May. The Vanguard, the Navy explained, was supposed to have climbed to 300-400 miles, then gone into its orbit. Instead, the second-stage engine failed to cut off, kept the Vanguard going up instead of letting it turn parallel to the earth's surface. When the third stage fired at the wrong angle, the rocket just kept on going-straight up to 2,200 miles. The Navy's reading of Cape Canaveral instruments showed that the satellite landed near the west coast of South Africa...
...Certain Smile (20th Century-Fox), like the film version of Françoise Sagan's earlier novel, Bonjour Tristesse, puts aside bored yawning, Sagan style, for well-bred panting, Hollywood style. In the book, precociously world-weary Dominique ho-hums her way through a pair of parallel love affairs, finding no lasting happiness or pleasure in either of them-only a wan, temporary escape from ennui. But Hollywood's Dominique (French Actress Christine Carere) is as pert and wholesome as a cheerleader in love with the football captain. So what if she spends a week on the Riviera...
Cohen and Clancy, in notably parallel views, attack the extremists on either side of the running church-and-state debate. Clancy asserts that the all-out "separationists" are really a minority, and just as dogmatic in their way as the dogmatic churches they oppose. Cohen refers to the same group as "latterday Jacobins." Instead of regarding the secular as the neutral arena where conflicts of principle may be fought out, he says, the Jacobins have turned secularism into a weapon...
Persistence of sectarianism is promoted strongly by the "conspiracy of silence" or so-called "religious toleration." There is a deadly parallel between the "conspiracy of silence" on sectarianism today with the "conspiracy of silence" on the "social diseases" a few years ago. So long as people were "too nice" to mention the social diseases the diseases were largely untreated and ate away at countless victims. Because we are "too nice" to call attention to the errors and other evils within one another's sectarianism, they eat away at our religious life. While critics of sectarianism generally remain silent, zealous sectarians...
Herzog declared that colleges outside the 29 have shown a parallel increase in applications and admissions. Several, he mentioned, have asked to join...