Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parallel to Pentagon red tape was the drill for loading, firing and reloading a musket in the British army in the 17th century. The drill was designed to eliminate individual error and to achieve uniform rate of fire. Its 31 orders, as recorded by Robert Graves in Sergeant Lamb's America: "March with your rest in your hand! March, and with your musket carry your rest! Unshoulder your musket! Poise your musket! Join your rest to your musket! Take forth your Match! Blow off your coal! Cock your match! Try your match! Guard, blow, and open your priming...
...recent faculty meeting, Yale instructors voted that "a department might propose to the faculty one now discussion course, to be given only in the colleges, the course to satisfy a distributional requirement or to parallel a pre-requisite to the major." The Eli English department has already proposed one such course for credit--which would be similar to a Harvard junior's counting tutorial for credit...
...complicated control panel, a lecturer flips switches and makes the monster act. As it turns around an axis parallel to a line between the earth's poles, its projected stars move through the artificial heaven just as the earth's rotation seems to move the real stars overhead. When the monster swings about another axis (perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic), the north pole of the sky seems to move in a circle-the same circle that it makes every 26,000 years. Thus, the lecturer can move the stars through time: turn them back...
North & South. After nearly three years of war, there is not much left of Korea. North of the 38th parallel the devastation is immense. U.N. intelligence estimates that bombing and strafing have destroyed 40% of all habitations of any kind; U.N. bombers no longer have profitable targets. The civilian population has diminished from 8,000,000 to perhaps 4,000,000-killed in the bombing, dead from malnutrition or cold, fled to the South for freedom, or carried off by the Communist occupiers. The North Korean army is a shadow: perhaps only 50,000 soldiers remain of their once formidable...
...capital city of Seoul is 80% uninhabitable. Public buildings everywhere lie in ruins, public utility services are makeshift, and two-thirds of the schools are unusable. Only in the South's gaunt era of Reconstruction after the Civil War is there a U.S. parallel to what Rhee and his people are up against. The economy is shot to pieces. Some 75% of all mines and textile factories have suffered severe damage. Those industries which can function lack parts for maintenance and equipment for repair. The draft has absorbed much of the country's youth, but there are still...