Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parallel development, East Germany agreed to grant passes through the Wall dividing the city; they will be good for up to 30 days a year for West Berliners planning to visit East Berlin and East Germany. West Berliners have been barred from East Berlin since 1966, from East Germany since 1952. Disputes over the terms of the passes had delayed the initialing of the access agreement for a week...
Easier Divorce. The increase seems to parallel the rise of Women's Lib, which has led women to expect more freedom and pleasure. Women now feel freer to go off with other men and leave their children to the care of their husbands. Besides, running away has become financially easier. Women have more education and can more readily find jobs. They are more affluent, so they can afford to flee by plane or in the family's second car. They also have the Pill-and the prospect of easier divorce. "Years ago," Investigator Gold-fader sums...
...state of his technology to the state of nuclear physics at the outset of World War II. At that time a group of scientists informed the President that they knew, not how to build a bomb, but how to go about finding out how to build a bomb. The parallel is striking. The atom bomb taught us that all science is not necessarily good, that new techniques that are not necessarily better than old techniques, that knowledge is at best morally neutral, not always right...
...conference's primary success--beyond relatively technical matters of structure and policy--was the sense of cohesiveness and solidarity that it generated. People who had spent the past several years organizing in isolated communities drew strength from meeting people with parallel experiences and sharing ideas and strategies...
Brook is constantly aware of the possibilities in film for more supple dramatic movement, and he is able to use a technique as fundamental as parallel montage to alter completely the dramatic rhythms. A long speech of Goneril's is intercut with shots of Lear riding furiously on the hunt, so that by the time the single speech is finished, the relationship of father and eldest daughter is completely redefined. And when Lear first realizes the emasculating ingratitude of Goneril and Regan ("O, reason not the need!"), Brook moves toward a close-up of the king's eyes that measure...