Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think that the desire to set young America aside as a tragic product of history and economics is nothing so much as it is "our generation's" vanity. There is some sentiment around today that young people, post World War II, parallel in their reaction to their problems the young people of post World War I. Instead of setting up shop at Gertrude Stein's or Pamplona, we are setting up shop inside ourselves, and watch out, brother, we are going to come up with some great literature. This is, I think, an academic approach. All the talk we hear...
Ever since 1880, all of Argentina south of the 42nd parallel has been an on-again-off-again free zone. The motive of President after President was to encourage settlement of the empty, rocky area, once regarded hungrily by land-poor Chile as a possible zone of expansion. The result every time has been smuggling on the grand scale from the free area past the sparsely guarded parallel. Patagonia's population has continued to be mostly sheep (14 million in 1955) and goats...
...smuggling flourish from 1945 to 1953. In July 1956 President Pedro Aramburu revived the free zone with the old, futile hope that it could make an eroded wasteland blossom. Instead, refrigerators, watches, lingerie, television sets and bubble gum began moving across the border. Wooden handles stamped "made south of parallel 42" were slapped into imported shovels, wooden bases with the same markings were attached to Japanese sewing machines, and all the loot found its way north to market. Most lucrative item of all was the automobile, legally subject to duties of six times or more its U.S. market value. Second...
...organization in the University has a parallel arrangement for administration and membership. The players in the orchestra fall into three catagories: Harvard men who are members of the Sodality, Cantabrigians interested in orchestral music who play a vital but scarce instrument like the viola, and Radcliffe girls who are members of the Radcliffe Orchestra...
Citing the situation at Columbia as being a fairly close parallel with the University's, Florovsky pointed out that Columbia has very close cooperation between various religious groups by use of a council which meets each week to discuss inter-faith problems. The recognized University chapel, however, may be used only by Protestants, with the other faiths using places of worship in the vicinity of the University...