Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parallel claim was made by Robert Bloom, now Deputy Comptroller of the Currency and a career bureaucrat who was acting comptroller when Lance's nomination was approved by the Senate. Appearing before a House banking subcommittee, Bloom fielded a barrage of questions about why he had not alerted Congress to Lance's banking practices...
Daughter of immigrants from Palermo, Costanza began her career as a switchboard operator. Over 24 years, she rose to executive assistant to a Rochester entrepreneur, and carried out a parallel career in city and state politics. For Vice Mayor Midge (she uses her formal name, Margaret, only on voting machines), politics led to an acquaintanceship with Carter-and, ultimately, her present job. Never married, Costanza lives alone in a Foggy Bottom condominium and devotes virtually all of her waking hours to the job. (The man in her life died last year...
There is no parallel in the history of broadcasting?and few in any well-established industries?to ABC's sudden rise. It is as if, in the space of two years, Chrysler had surged past General Motors and sent Ford reeling back to Dearborn. Or ?to stretch the truth only a bit?as if China had discovered some mysterious, all-powerful Z-bomb and in victorious glee ordered both the White House and the Kremlin dismantled and shipped, boards and nails, to Peking...
...traditional role as villains and assigns it to the loutish Roman soldiers. The main instigator of the Crucifixion, however, turns out to be Lucifer. The Evil One mingles with the Jewish street crowds and accompanies Judas on his mission of betrayal. In one of the few lines with a parallel in both versions, Judas now says, "Oh what cursed gold I received, turning me into a traitor." The 19th century text goes, "Oh cursed money I received from you, the Jewish rot, the scum." Schwaighofer has also added other new elements: a loudspeaker system and stage lights for nighttime performances...
...dinner in the Secretary's honor, in a 22-minute toast, Begin drew a parallel between the P.L.O. and the Nazis, and described the P.L.O. philosophy as "an Arabic Mein Kampf [which was] a danger to all free nations." Vance, in a brief, measured nonresponse, acknowledged that Washington was taking "a more active approach than you would prefer" in attempting to steer the two sides into negotiations. Vance urged his hosts to take a chance for peace and to accept "the risks of a course which can bring greater rewards, but which also leads down paths that are unfamiliar...