Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admits that some French specialties simply do not have a minceur equivalent-calf s liver, for example, dries out when cooked a la vapeur, and extravagances like foie gras are obviously not duplicable. Guérard's extraordinary accomplishment has been to create something close to a parallel French cuisine. Says Dr. Georges Halpern, vice president of the French Gastronomical Medical Society: "Guérard has a genius for satisfying the upper part of the body-the tongue, eyes and mind -without filling up the bottom part, the stomach...
Cashin sat on the seat of the port ergometer and set the counter for a four minute piece. Junior John Brock sat on the seat of the parallel starboard ergometer and set the counter for a four-minute piece...
...industrial capitalism. So broad an undertaking requires Marcus to expand the range of materials traditionally available to the critic. Alongside those writers whose interpretation of society appears in overtly imaginative, fictional form, he places social theorists, historians, psychologists, even pornographers, all of whom he sees as engaged in parallel ventures...
...question for seniors became how to fill a given number of pages. Put this way, the senior thesis metamorphosed into the senior-long-research-paper and was that much less attractive. But at this point we must digress for a moment. Parallel to the development of the long specialist paper came two other changes that, taken together, tend to heighten seniors' ambivalence about this new monster. One was the growth of an ideology that holds that student life must be fun every minute. This belief has a surprisingly diverse constituency, running from jocks to aristocrats to the endangered Harvard hipsters...
...idea it would come to this. The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, commonly known as the ethics committee, last week began its preliminary inquiry into whether the CBS correspondent should be cited for contempt or otherwise disciplined by Congress. The Justice Department was pressing a parallel investigation to see if he had violated federal espionage statutes. CBS suspended Schorr from all reporting duties, and he began spending long hours with his network-paid attorney. As a tense and weary Schorr told a group of colleagues at the Washington Press Club: "The joys of martyrdom are considerably overrated...