Word: parallelling
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...captivity. The biggest work on the animal is a troglodytic volume produced forty years ago by Harry Burrell, and it is an elementary natural history of the platypus. Temple-Smith's own work has been done on the streams and backwaters of Australia, with the use of nets set parallel to the banks, where the platypus lives in a long and shallow burrow...
...statues made by foundry-workers are called art, then the role of the artist becomes unclear. Until the Renaissance, artists were craftsmen, then they became humanists, today they are celebrities. Janet Cox, the editor of the show's excellent but outrageously expensive catalogue, likes to draw a parallel between this collection and the pieces by the late sculptor David Smith which critic Clement Greenberg recently took it upon himself to repaint. Each of the statues in this show was similarly refinished when it came from its mold--the caster added details, smoothed the finish, destroyed the mystique of the artist...
Brian Banks, who has the potential to be an excellent center, will be the man in the middle, and don't be surprised if Banks's and the Crimson's development parallel each other. The only other senior on the team, Mufi Hanneman, will also be counted on to pull down a few rebounds...
Jaroslav Pelikan has had the good sense to call attention to the obvious: that Americans are now suffering from a "failure of nerve," a "sense of collective impotence," and a doubt as to whether the "future holds anything worth striving for"--a condition which shows at least some parallel to that of Rome in decline. Many acute social critics--notably Lewis Mumford in America and F.R. Leavis in England--have been saying similar things, not out of despair but in the hope that if we face the situation we can make room for the shoots of new life trying...
...game notable for a lack of contribution by the groundskeepers, and a superfluity of contribution by the spectators. Only after the players had arrived at Hamilton field did someone notice there were no goalposts. A frantic last minute search turned up nothing better than clothesline attached to parallel stakes. Throughout the game both lines held tightly, Yale scoring the contest's sole goal towards the end of the first half. Then, with only a minute or so remaining, Harvard launched a fearsome drive, muscling the ball near the Eli goal line. Suddenly, a barrage of Yale fans stormed the field...