Word: parallelling
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WHEN T.S. ELIOT reviewed Ulysses for Dial Magazine in 1923, he used the phrase "mythical method" to characterize the literary schema then being developed by his contemporaries--Joyce, Pound, Yeats--as well as by Eliot himself. But while the use of "a continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity," as Eliot explained his term, was setting the literati of America and the British Isles on fire, in far-off Alexandria, Egypt, a poet who is just now receiving the recognition due a major literary figure was fashioning his own "mythical method." Constantine P. Cavafy, the poet of "Greeks in exile...
Birth Control. The government also set out to abolish the illegal "parallel economy" that had flourished alongside the official one. About 1,300 smugglers were thrown in jail. Mrs. Gandhi, on the other hand, declared an amnesty from criminal charges for people who had failed to pay sufficient taxes-often on wealth accumulated from undeclared remittances sent home by Indians living abroad-provided they declared their holdings and paid taxes and a penalty on them. Large sums that would otherwise have been spent on such luxury items as cars and air conditioners flowed into the treasury, adding to foreign exchange...
...fire, going over official documents. At Idaho's Sun Valley, only limited skiing is available, so more guests than usual while away their time trapshooting, riding horses and trading volleys on the tennis courts. In Northern California's Heavenly Valley, San Francisco secretary Lani Palmer practices parallel turns on an inclined treadmill of 30-ft.-wide Mylar carpeting strung between two spinning rollers. Says she: "That carpet makes it seem like I'm skiing through a dentist's office...
Harvard previously sought "a chair in Modern Korean Studies to parallel the present chair in Pre-Modern Korean Studies" whose stress is historical. I failed almost completely to get it. And, while prating of further quest, by getting a major economic-society component alone in a small and job-starved field with few fund sources, it becomes far less likely that Harvard can and will make good the discrepancy...
...doctor's office. Complaining of chest pains, Daley, who had suffered from angina for several years, dropped by for a checkup-and collapsed. Ninety minutes of efforts by medical teams could not revive him. After 22 years as mayor, at the head of a political machine without parallel in America, Daley was dead...