Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years away from school, although she felt embarrassed before her younger classmates. To Rosenblatt the alumni's questions about literature are more important than those asked by undergraduates for they dealt with life-related rather than literary-related themes. He was astonished when an alumnus sought to draw a parallel between Invisible Man and Watergate. Rosenblatt echoes many instructors who have taught alumni summer sessions when he reviews his experience: "Undergraduates and graduates are aware of the limitations of literary analysis. They don't ask questions pertaining to their own lives...
...under critical questioning, Mitchell contended that he had made no parallel effort to persuade other knowledgeable officials to withhold similar facts from the President, and he denied taking any action to keep the arrested conspirators silent. Considering Mitchell's overriding concern for Nixon's reelection, his efforts to "keep the lid on," as he put it, seemed much too limited to ensure the President's insulation. To admit broader activities, of course, could make Mitchell-who was not testifying under any grant of immunity against criminal prosecution-more susceptible to a charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice...
...Soviet treatment of Watergate; it has received only brief mentions in Pravda and Izvestia. Both in Moscow and in Eastern Europe, party cadres have portrayed the affair as a conspiracy by American "reactionaries" to sabotage Nixon's rapprochement with the Soviet Union. One lecturer claimed there was a parallel with John Kennedy, who, he said, was assassinated because he intended to improve relations with the Soviet Union...
...been announced a number of times that parallel to the aid given, there have been forms of persuasion to induce the regime to restore democracy...
...this parallel effort has ever been applied, I am not aware...