Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Karefa-Smart's understanding of his own people was based on his parallel education that began when his grandfather decided that, at the age of six, he was ready for initiation into the secret Poro Society. Seventy-five years ago, that society gaimed fame for its resistance of British domination. But by the 1920s, it was actually an indigenous community school, and becoming a member was like making a social debut...
...spirit of Portugal may be more relevant even to an impeachment inquiry than the transcripts are, because it is an inspiring example of a people trying to take government into their own hands--something the American people's elected representatives in Congress are shamefully reluctant to do. And the parallel goes further than that. Getting rid of Marcello Caetano and replacing him with Antonio de Spinola didn't guarantee real change any more than replacing Richard Nixon with Gerald Ford would--but without that spur thousands of Portuguese would not have taken to the streets, no longer afraid...
Still another potential hitch is the fact that the Soviets last month abandoned their plan for an east-Siberian oil and gas pipeline and instead plan a railroad that would run roughly parallel to the Chinese border some 250 to 300 miles inside Soviet territory. Among other things, it would carry Siberian oil to ports for export to Japan. The Chinese are probably worried by the idea of a railroad, which also could be used to carry troops and arms. Japanese relations with China have been improving recently, and Premier Kakuei Tanaka is unlikely to do anything to jeopardize that...
...emits the smoke with puffs of mirth. The latest display of his intellectual curiosity, verbal agility and quirky sense of humor is Jumpers (TIME, March 11), a comedy currently on view at Manhattan's Billy Rose Theater. Jumpers is a philosophical roller coaster careering dizzyingly along the parallel tracks of wit and logic over such subjects as the existence or nonexistence of God, the nature of good and evil, and the interdependence of ethics and metaphysics...
...word could be less appropriate to a description of this foreigner's sensibilities than "alert." He moves through a series of bizarre dreams interspersed with memories of two episodes: a menage a trois involving his psychiatrist friend, Peter; and a parallel affair on a pleasure cruise, with a young girl and a leering, malevolent ship's officer. But the real movement here is through the depths of Allert's consciousness--from an intensely still, death-like emotional withdrawal to an indistinct waking dream that is the closest the narrative ever comes to clear, objective perception. Allert submerges, as Peter puts...