Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commission was consistently against 1) competition between the Government and private agencies (parallel military and civilian airline routes) and 2) competition within the Government (General Services Administration and Veterans Administration warehouses side by side at Wilmington, Calif.). The commission was for continued foreign aid despite "many mistakes and waste." It urged greatly increased funds for medical and scientific research...
...cannot believe it," editorialized Manila's Evening News. "This is a prohibition without parallel in our times . . . Ballet is one of the great arts . . . Catholic governments have encouraged and even financially supported it for centuries. It is astounding to find that we must argue such a point...
Just Snobbery? Author Hoffman has spent years compiling a list of Marlowe-Shakespeare "parallelisms," i.e., extracts from Marlowe's acknowledged works which are repeated or rephrased in the works of Shakespeare. He is not the first to find, for instance, that four whole lines from Marlowe's poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love turn up again with hardly a word changed in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, or that after Marlowe wrote of Helen of Troy, "Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?" Shakespeare echoed him (in Troilus and Cressida) with...
Extension courses parallel regular college course. They cover the major areas roughly corresponding to elementary departmental courses and often have identical syllabi. Enrollment and funds are too limited to give the more advanced studies, but the basic subjects are given yearly and middle-group courses are repeated every four or five years to allow room for variety. Since 1950, the Extension has also offered elementary General Education courses, usually one from each area...
...plate Democratic dinner in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Harry Truman staked out his favorite whipping boy, "the one-party press." "There has been no parallel in our history," said Truman, "to the cloak of protection thrown about this Administration by so much of the press . . . Never in the peacetime history of this nation has there been such a vast volume of persistent publicity to praise and extol an Administration." This week, on the day after the speech, the New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James B. Reston angrily set Harry Truman straight: "Mr. Truman should have a talk...