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...running across the lot, stepping on things I can't see, surrounded again by police whistles and flashing blue lights moving parallel to us in the street...
...time for her to get up and go home. Says Gurney's uncle, Buffalo Physician Ramsdell Gurney: "My mother did exactly what Peter had her do in that play. To see her portrayed that way saddened me, but the audience thought it was terribly amusing." The most striking parallel in Gurney's plays to his life is the marriage between the young lovers' parents in The Middle Ages: four years ago, Gurney's widowed mother married Gurney's wife's widowed father. Says Gurney: "This time, though, it was life imitating art - I wrote...
Clearly, the parallel is not perfect: Americans are less committed to an egalitarian society, the New Deal and Great Society have lost their appeal in the face of the new selfishness, and one cannot be sure that voters will respond so directly, Still, a welfare state has a certain amount of inertia. One cannot easily deprive people of privileges they have had a taste of, and even Reagan has been forced to compromise, sparing Social Security, signing the new $5 billion jobs bill, and even raising some taxes. But the pressure for new taxes will continue as the projected deficit...
...striking aspect of the report is how closely the Soviet developments parallel the weapons strategy pursued by the West. One of the two new ICBMs being tested by Moscow, for example, is similar in size and range to the proposed MX; the other is mobile, similar in concept to what some analysts have proposed for the U.S. The Soviets are also trying to counter U.S. naval superiority with a nuclear carrier resembling the Nimitz and missile-carrying nuclear submarines comparable to the Tridents. The Blackjack bomber is intended to fill the role proposed for America...
WHEN the philosopher shifts his attention to astronomy, he proves that velocity and position can be measured only to a maximum combined accuracy in celestial bodies. Thus he establishes a parallel in non-quantum mechanics to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which states that a particle's velocity and position cannot both be measured accurately at the same point in time. Later, Popper argues that because an observer is limited by the speed of light, he observes all initial conditions affecting the system only after the event has happened...