Word: paralleling
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...capable of this kind of shift in national mood? I have no idea. It has seemed at times as if we have been living in parallel universes this past year. The polarization, aided and abetted by Michael Moore, Mel Gibson, MoveOn.org and the Swift Boat Vets, among many others, has deepened into a variety of embitterments. But elections are--or should be--the antacids to this kind of dyspepsia. They are ways to clear the air, to settle the rancor for a while, to concede that the country as a whole has now decided one way or the other, however...
...conservatives' parallel anti-Bush-bias narrative, of course, mainstream journalists were biased. Its fifth column consisted of snooty élitist media that disdained Bush's intelligence, faith and policies--a fixation culminating in Dan Rather's report, which questioned Bush's Guard service on the basis of documents that the network later had to acknowledge may have been forged. Bernard Goldberg, a former CBS correspondent and the author of Bias and Arrogance, two broadsides against liberal bias, says the suspect documents in the CBS report "made it through all their checkpoints. Why is that? Because they wanted...
Harvard has ample space, ample funding and ample inspiration to create a structure of parallel or more profound significance. Whether the design and commissioning comes from within the administration, the corporation or collective alumni efforts, it is evident that something must be constructed to propel Harvard College into the 21st century, to remind students how far they have come and where they will go. Centuries-old architecture may look pretty on college propaganda, but students, Faculty and visitors alike deserve to see a full picture of Harvard’s history and future...
...music is so gleefully esoteric that it can’t be taken at face value and so opaque that it doesn’t make a statement. A decent parallel is early Beck: obscure, illogical, culturally hyper-aware, teetering on the verge of kitsch. It’s a pity Ariel Pink doesn’t have Beck’s talent, or this album might have been a lo-fi classic instead of a half-fleshed out concept. The Doldrums is troglodytic music: the detritus of decades pushed underground and reformed into something unsettling and unfit...
...most dangerous of his career, with frequent patrols along the DMZ and the enemy occasionally shooting at U.S. Army positions. After a few weeks in his new unit, Jenkins was asked to volunteer to lead troops on dangerous daytime reconnaissance outings, called "Hunter Killer" missions, along the 38th parallel. He always refused. In the winter of that year, he also learned that his unit was likely to be shipped out to Vietnam in the spring or summer of 1965. Breaking down while speaking with the judge, Jenkins said he started to suffer from depression, drink heavily and seek...