Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only changes of the Quincy St. site proposed by the winners was that Lamont Library, which they deemed an "intrusive and annoying element," be demolished and a narrow, building running parallel to Quincy St. be build in its place...
Bunshaft's Lever House consisted of two glass slabs. A one-story horizontal slab, partly on stilts, is laid parallel to Park Avenue. A 24-story vertical slab intersects the horizontal one and faces East 54th Street. The openings under the stilts lead to an interior court. The building occupies only 25% of the permissible space, for dramatic effect and to let light into the offices...
...humiliation of the Liang's throwing rocks at the family's windows and beating up Liang Heng. Liang makes little criticism of them, for no one expects rationality from children. But when the cruel methods of public humiliation and torture spread to adults during the "Traveling Struggle" movement, the parallel is disturbing...
...runs a parallel espionage operation using "illegals." Such agents assume a false identity, complete with a false personal history, or "legend," so they can penetrate deeply into a foreign setting. They often remain inactive for years before receiving an assignment from Moscow. Illegal Agent Rudolph Herrmann slipped into the U.S. by way of Canada in 1969 and, while posing as a freelance photographer, arranged information drops for other spies. FBI agents caught up with Herrmann because of a blunder by his KGB contact and turned him into a double agent. Herrmann "officially defected" in 1980, after receiving orders from Moscow...
...another age. When the Nazis first began to persecute Jews in Germany, the police and other authorities did nothing. Civilians watched the beginnings of terror, uncaring. All of these groups had the same attitude: why should we do anything or feel responsible, we are harming no one. Such a parallel in no way equates the inaction of the IDF with the inhuman genocide administered by the Nazis. But it does show that some Israeli officers were guilty of the same indifference that helped destroy an earlier society...