Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Future of American Politics, "The same 'better element' in the community who kept the racial lid on during the first primary let it blow in the runoff." The fact that the GOP "better element" has never been too effective in keeping the lid on hardly destroys the parallel; especially when the files of the Justice Department and even certain Canadian documents have been invoked to make the explosion more devastating than ever. No move or series of moves could do more to divert attention from the tasks at hand, to preclude a reasoned approach to the problems of world leadership...
...mountains, linking their garrisons; they are opening Lhasa, the Forbidden City, to China proper and to Russia. Peking newspapers now reach Lhasa in ten days; before Mao they took several months. One 1,400-mile road starts from Sinkiang, at the edge of Russia, and curves through Tibet parallel to the Indian frontier (see map). From this strategic cord, side roads will point toward every major pass of the Himalayan mountains. The Chinese Communists are also laying down airfields in western Tibet, using Russian engineers and Russian equipment on all these projects...
Agustin Lara has been called Mexico's Irving Berlin, though the parallel is more in output and popularity than in mood.* Inimitably latino, Lara is a composer of melancholy love songs who now single-mindedly says: "Woman is the reason for my existence." Since, like Berlin, he can neither read nor write music, he pecks out his tunes on a piano and lets others set them down. In this fashion he has written some 600 songs of love, of whispered reproach and moaning despair...
...more broadly the issue of seating neutrals in a peace conference among belligerents-caused some alarm among observers accustomed to agreement among the Western Powers. It dramatized what the Christian Science Monitor, on the one hand, called an "almost universal, really appalling decline of confidence in U.S. leadership," and parallel U.S. loss of confidence in her allies on the other. For most Europeans and Asians, the issue was their "realism" v. U.S. "rigidity." For most Americans, it was "firmness" v. "appeasement" of their allies...
...standby. But Author Petry, serious as she is about her seriously told plot, almost lets it take second place to other and better things: Negro life in broken-down Bumble Street, Aunt Abbie's sturdy effort to clothe her existence in dignity. Best of all is the rich parallel story of little Malcolm Powther, the dignified Treadway butler, and his blowsy, handsome, blues-singing, two-timing wife. Link and Camilo have a fictional survival period of one publishing season at best. Had Author Petry stuck strictly to Malcolm and Mamie Powther, The Narrows would be remembered far longer...