Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the parallel between the Tsarist and 'Soviet regimes is not explicitly stated in his ambitious new book, Russia Under the Old Regime. Pipes wants this conclusion to emerge as an historical inevitability. In arid prose he tells the story of how the crown, like a spider stretching its tentacles, became the absolute source of political and economic power in Russia, making opposition from interest groups impossible for 500 years. When opposition finally did come in the late nineteenth century, the crown reacted with the slow, sharp sting of the police state. For Pipes, it seems only natural that when...
Life is Elsewhere won Kundera the Medici Literary award for the best foreign novel published in France, a sign of international recognition and interest for his work as well as the efforts of a whole generation of writers whose fate is so closely parallel with that of their country...
...anxiety is at least slightly exaggerated; many experts expect Peking or Moscow (or both) to restrain Kim (TIME, May 12). Seoul, however, still has cause for concern. Communist victories in Indochina may so embolden North Korea that it will once again send its forces across the 38th parallel, perhaps gambling that South Korean President Park Chung Hee's repressive regime (TIME, April 28) has alienated the populace. Kim may also feel that the U.S., which has a mutual defense treaty with South Korea (backed by the presence of nearly 40,000 American soldiers), is temporarily so weakened...
...preparation for the canal's formal reopening on June 5, the West German freighters MÜnsterland and Nordwind sailed to Port Said from the Bitter Lakes along with 13 other ships. The rusting carriers had been trapped there since the canal was blocked in 1967. Discerning a parallel between the preparations for the canal reopening and the broader peace negotiations that have made it possible, Egyptian Cartoonist Salah Jaheen in al Ahram last week drew President Anwar Sadat piloting a tug named "New Diplomatic Drive" and hauling a ship designated "Arab Policy" out of a diplomatic bitter lake...
...decade ago, when she first showed her work in the U.S., Riley's paintings were almost synonymous with visual assault. Black elliptical dots on a white ground, arranged in a grid but turning fractionally to set up an irritating instability of focus; parallel stripes whose wavy motion produced something akin to seasickness. Ever since her art-student days in London, Riley had been fascinated with patterns based on repeated units: the dots in Seurat's paintings, the balance of delicate strains between Mondrian's squares...