Word: parallelling
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...surrounding a quiet interior scene. Boys are likely to construct towers, facades with cannons, and lively exterior scenes. Erikson acknowledges that cultural influences are at work, but he is convinced that they do not fully explain the nature of children's play. The differences, he says, "seem to parallel the morphology [shape and form] of genital differentiation itself: in the male, an external organ, erectible and intrusive; internal organs in the female, with vestibular access, leading to statically expectant...
James H. Shaw, professor of Nutrition at the School of Dentistry, and advisor to the Fellowship said yesterday that the Fellowship is larger and more active now than at any time in the last 25 years. "We aren't specifically part of the Jesus Movement, but our activities parallel it," he said. Membership has increased from 25 students to over...
This has been one of the familiar themes of American art ever since the Hudson River School-the idea of epic landscape, which gives rise to the parallel idea that the actual making of a picture is some kind of journey. And for Wofford, whose attitude has been much influenced by reading the memoirs of an Oglala chief (Black Elk Speaks), landscape ought not to be separated from the way American Indians perceived nature: as an assembly not of dead earth and dumb plants, but of sentient presences. Some of this comes through in paintings like Star-Weaver, with their...
...similarity of writing structure. The same basic ideas often follow each other within paragraphs and in like-constructed sentences in the two manuscripts. Moreover, the same anecdotes sometimes follow each other, even when no logic compels it. In the boxes on the following pages are two extended examples of parallel episodes from the two books. In addition, herewith a selected reading of other similar incidents...
...Harvard should be a tutorial system and that it should be centered in them. As he foresaw it, a student in a House would deal only or mainly with faculty members associated with his House, perhaps resident in it, and thus academic and social relationships would be closely parallel. This system, modelled on the Oxford and Cambridge colleges, would nog have worked for natural scientists in any case (as the English have discovered); financial stringencies of the depression years brought a cut in tutorial instead of the planned expansion; and a new administration beginning in 1933 had other priorities...