Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glare of DuPont's smoke and flames. The passengers waiting on the platform of Philadelphia's Thirtieth Street Station look like molish members of a dust-filled underworld. The train pulls out into a complex of electric power lines, intricately crossing tracks, and still freight cars. It then runs parallel to a river, crosses over, and continues through a residential area. To the right, a small rowboat drifts lazily on a pond set among grassy walkways and elaborate shubbery. To the left stand weather-beaten houses crushed together on littered asphalt streets. A middle-aged woman stands in her musty...
...rainspouts. Shortly the inflexible lines of the Prudential Center appear, and the train glides into Boston's Back Bay. On the left is a series of gutted apartments, their red bricks turned black with age and filth. On the right renovated townhouses line well-swept streets. Mass Pike runs parallel to the train tracks on the left...
...betrayals on which (at least in their view) other successful careers are built. But there is more to it than envy. Such essential qualities as character, honor, decency, intelligence, lovableness, dependability, common sense, humor and perception are randomly dispersed in the population and do not necessarily ascend on a parallel curve with a man's economic status. Nor do such qualities depend upon the amount of his schooling or "brains"; IQ tests do not measure character. This may be why William F. Buckley, that maverick among snobs, would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people...
...enacting the lyrics of some Hit Parade ballad-but remain remote from each other. Talking about their eventual capture, Kit is most concerned about whether he will still be alive enough, after the shootout, to hear the doctor pronounce him dead. They are both living out parallel fantasies of glory, and Malick tells their story in the language of their secondhand dreams. He thus leaves himself open to accusations of condescension to his characters, but Badlands, which can cut sharply, also has a sort of reluctant compassion for Holly and Kit. The poverty of their desensitized lives not only propels...
Beckwith said that recent advances in science and technology parallel developments prior to the eugenics movement at the turn of the century. This movement ended with Nazi extension of eugenic ideas promoted in this country...