Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stormy night of Aug. 21, 1930, was still securely bound in the tradition of Queen Victoria. But a scant six years later, it was dealt a severe blow in the abdication of vacillating King Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor. In recent weeks, many have rushed to draw a parallel between that Crown crisis and this, but there is not much to compare in the two. Edward was the King-Emperor, the personal embodiment of the sovereign power in a Britain still governed by Victorian standards. Margaret is a Princess, in a predominantly socialist-minded state, who has little chance...
...turned out, however, the 12 o'clock forces never even reached the 38th Parallel, much less the Yalu. The Masters, much as they wanted to eliminate the 1 to 4 p.m. hours, couldn't bring themselves to grant midnight permissions in return, not even for just the Dartmouth and Yale Saturdays. They unanimously voted down the House Committee Chairmens' proposal, and agreed merely to study the whole question of "simple, inexpensive, decent entertainment"-- particularly decent...
Toynbee argued from a parallel to the Christian-pagan struggle in ancient Rome, where the Christians, while bitterly opposed to the infields, ultimately incorporated much of Graeco-Roman paganism into the new religion...
Like the late works of Beethoven, the graphic art of Goya seems to transcend the limits of style and arrive at an absolute. The parallel is interesting because both men produced their greatest works shut off from the world of sound. Misfortune no doubt seemed endless in Goya's case: he lost his famous mistress, the Duchess of Alba, soon after he lost his hearing. But in spite of the compounded misfortunes, there was some compensation. It was just about this time that he was really finding himself as an artist. His etchings follow the last developments, describing the concerns...
...lived on to publish plays under the assumed name of William Shakespeare. To prove his theory--at times, it almost seems as if the idea were more axiom than theory to Mr. Hoffman--he has poked into old tomes and publication entry books, has listed 30 pages of parallel constructions in Shakespeare and Marlowe, and in the end has come up with a story that is intriguing--if not convincing...