Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appear at first sight. As '46 classmate James G. Trager wrote at the time, the Service News was forced "to walk a tight rope carrying a fine-silk parasol" to maintain its pose of equanimity, and, one suspects, many other aspects of college life were forced to pursue a parallel course...
Striking a parallel to John of the Cross (author of The Dark Night of the Soul), Berrigan assigns himself the literary priest's ancient task: accounting for "one man's spiritual journey." It is a very special journey, however. He is performing his walk, he suggests, as a "high-wire act" stretched between contemporary politics and Catholic tradition, explaining his actions to God, the Church and himself...
When Chiang and his mainlanders arrived in 1949, they set up not only a top-heavy military establishment on the island (1,600 generals and 200 admirals by one authoritative estimate) but also two parallel civilian governments. One supposedly rules the Republic of China. The other administers the province of Taiwan, which since 1949 has been under martial law, backed up by an active political police force...
...this month, members of the Mississippi State Highway Patrol fired into a women's dormitory at Jackson State College, and murdered Philip Gibbs and James Earl Green and wounded nine other students. The incident at Jackson, coming within two weeks of the four murders at Kent State, were immediately paralleled to the Kent killings, and used as a re-enforcement of the "Student as Nigger" metaphor. However, there was a large and important difference between what happened at Jackson and what happened at Kent, and an even larger difference in what has been the reaction to the two events. These...
...remain unknown entirely, magical creatures are composites of the world we know, and we turn men into pigs, always the unknown. Milton made it concrete and germinal and capitalized it with Heaven and Hell. Chaos is when things are skew at their origins, can never come together, cannot be parallel for sense or reason...