Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trekking back and forth from the dining hall and bothering with the social amenities in order to manage serious academic accomplishment in their last two years. And some men just want to feel less like a college boy and more like an individual. This feeling is not without parallel in the Harvard tradition...
...there were 400,000 French troops tied down in Algeria. The following year, to seal off Algeria from Tunisia, French forces began construction of the grandiose Ligne Morice (named after former Defense Minister Andre Morice)-a 150-mile, electrified barbed-wire fence running south from the Mediterranean coast parallel to the Tunisian frontier...
Diverted Streams. For a while Nelson Rockefeller went quietly about his normal New York life-which probably has no parallel among the city's 8,000,000 other residents. He is board chairman of Rockefeller Center, now mortgage free and conservatively valued at $150 million. From the RCA Building's Room 5600 ("Rockefeller, Office of the Messrs."), he presides over some $15 million worth of business investments in 17 other countries. He is a member of 18 boards of directors. He supports with his brothers nearly $4,000,000 worth of charities and special projects a year, from...
Speeches & Exhibits. The delegates came loaded with 2,300 scientific papers, 600 of which they were to present orally at five parallel series of meetings, with often baffled translators trying to deliver the highly technical texts in four languages. Along with this scientific five-ring circus ran two monster exhibitions, technical and commercial. The U.S. technical exhibit, which many visitors consider a triumph, and much better than the U.S. effort at the Brussels World's Fair, is staffed by white-coated scientists and 50 attractive, multilingual girls, who were put through a three-week crash course in basic nucleonics...
...until his 35th year, when his Walt Whitman cantata Toward the Unknown Region was performed (1907), did he attract any real attention; by then he was already six years a Mus.D. from Cambridge. He wrote his first ballet (Old King Cole] at 51, his first film score (49th Parallel) at 68. Ever eager to try his hand at something new, he surprised Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler with a Romance for Harmonica with orchestral accompaniment. By then Composer Williams was 79. At 80, two years a widower, he married for the second time-his secretary. A year later he listened...