Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does one need to cast very far back for another example: the suppression of the CIA "prestige" report is an exact parallel to the Labor Department's move. Whatever the value of such a report, and however genuine the entire issue of prestige, the people had a right to judge for themselves. And in the same vein of cynical contempt for the public's intelligence was this summer's trick of dating checks for items bought last fiscal year payable in this fiscal year. In effect, this rigged the figures to show an artificially balanced budget to the electorate...
According to Hars, both progressive movements of this century were followed by great World Wars and periods of intense nationalism. He drew a parallel between the 1919 "Red Scare" and McCarthyism...
...Patently parallel, the two affairs reiterate a favorite Bergman theme: love is an illusory, ephemeral phenomenon; understanding is possible only where the illusion of love is absent. The characteristically expressive acting typical of Bergman's more or less regular troupe serves to illustrate the theme. Miss Andresson's versatile transformation from the tomboy of A Lesson in Love to the model in Dreams is particularly noteworthy, and Miss Dahlbeck exhibits control like very few actresses around...
...dodging $791,745 in federal income taxes during 1952-57. But last week three court-appointed psychiatrists reported their unanimous diagnosis: Goldfine suffers from a manic-depressive psychosis, has strong suicidal tendencies. The court called off the trial, ordered Goldfine committed to a hospital for treatment. In a parallel case, onetime Federal
Since Exeter and Andover are nearly academic twins, it is tempting to suppose that these syndromes are just the results of big intensive boarding schools. But what is attributed to the individual schools is actually neither confined to their graduates not universal among them. Moreover, the two cases, though parallel, are quite different, and other parallels can be found which owe no scholastic allegiance...