Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Koestler has discerned a striking parallel between the rise of the Christian Church on the crumbling base of pagan Rome and the advance of contemporary Communism against a civilization which has lost faith in its God and is slowly disintegrating into the resultant void. He is not comparing the moral worth of Christianity with that of Communism; rather he demonstrates regretfully that strong faith of any kind can give impetus to social movements...
Last January he left the Academy for Korea, to command the IX Corps engaged on the bloody central front below the 38th parallel. Last week Bryant Moore flew over the front in a helicopter. Above the Han River, near Yoju, he told his pilot to go down for a closer look. The plane's rotor hit a cable. It crashed...
...Georgia town, is made out of the same cloth as Stars in My Crown (TIME, Jan. 8). A narrator's voice strings together a rambling account of rural joys, sorrows, faith; some of the incidents and characters (e.g., an epidemic, a greedy general-storekeeper) directly parallel the earlier movie, and again they are all designed to warm the heart...
...Cross the 38th parallel...
...establishment of the 38th parallel boundary...