Word: parallelling
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...betrayals on which (at least in their view) other successful careers are built. But there is more to it than envy. Such essential qualities as character, honor, decency, intelligence, lovableness, dependability, common sense, humor and perception are randomly dispersed in the population and do not necessarily ascend on a parallel curve with a man's economic status. Nor do such qualities depend upon the amount of his schooling or "brains"; IQ tests do not measure character. This may be why William F. Buckley, that maverick among snobs, would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people...
...enacting the lyrics of some Hit Parade ballad-but remain remote from each other. Talking about their eventual capture, Kit is most concerned about whether he will still be alive enough, after the shootout, to hear the doctor pronounce him dead. They are both living out parallel fantasies of glory, and Malick tells their story in the language of their secondhand dreams. He thus leaves himself open to accusations of condescension to his characters, but Badlands, which can cut sharply, also has a sort of reluctant compassion for Holly and Kit. The poverty of their desensitized lives not only propels...
Beckwith said that recent advances in science and technology parallel developments prior to the eugenics movement at the turn of the century. This movement ended with Nazi extension of eugenic ideas promoted in this country...
...minutes to do," he admits. At the Governor's mansion he exercises daily in a former spare bedroom that resembles a gymnasium. He lifts a 100-lb. weight over his head as many as 80 times a day, then spends as much as an hour standing between parallel bars. "With the help of a walker I can go 150 steps," he told TIME'S Atlanta bureau chief James Bell. "The doctors tell me I'm in excellent shape now except for the paralysis of the legs." His wife Cornelia, 35, likes to goad him by saying that...
...variety of parables. Complains Miller: "Christian theology has reduced those parables to a few creeds, all of which say the same thing." What is needed is an opening up of Christian thought, even to the extent of incorporating the Greek gods. Stories about the Greek deities, after all, parallel many Christian concepts, says Miller, citing as an example the ransom theory of the atonement as an analogue of Zeus' negotiations with Prometheus...