Word: parallel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success, few people know. He lives in a London hotel suite, receives no visitors, is cared for by his daughter Lotte, and reads the Bible before going to bed each night. A remote and austere figure, he has achieved a unique position in the music world. His trials parallel those experienced by the composer of the "Eroica." Beethoven proved that not even deafness could keep him from composing. Otto Klemperer has proved that not even paralysis can keep him from the podium...
...maintained by relays of radar-equipped Navy destroyer escorts and WV2 Super Constellations. These mid-ocean lines stretch from the Aleutians to the mid-Pacific and from Newfoundland to the mid-Atlantic. Backing them up will be chains of underwater "listening" lines, now being built parallel to the coasts, to detect and intercept missile-launching submarines several hundred miles out at sea. In addition, a ground DEW line extension is also under construction across the arc of the Aleutian Islands; other holes are plugged by the Alaskan...
...move resulted partly because several organizations, conducting parallel activities, expressed an interest in combining into one group. In the past some similar organizations have worked together, as the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Radcliffe students have also taken part on a restricted basis in Harvard organizations such as the Dramatic Club...
...Fauve-pointilist Matisse, shown with a Marquet similar in conception, exhibits the genius which would evolve to produce such a work as Reading Woman Against Black Background. Parallel to this, a particularly handsome analytical-cubist Braque foreshadows a flowering of the personality later to paint the small but outstanding Black Fish...
...asserts that "all criticism is a form of autobiography." This is a dubious statement, but The Vanishing Hero bears it out. O'Faolain is an Irish man of letters who cares very much about Ireland; for all his intellect, he is something of a provincial. This provinciality, and the parallel concerns for country, are assets in his short stories, but they make him an extremely limited critic. The more remote his subject is from Ireland, the worse O'Faolain's criticism becomes. He is at his best in the few pages on Joyce; but his chapter on Huxley and Waugh...