Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parallel? Joseph Stalin certainly knew that Churchill and Roosevelt would consider the parallel with 1939: May 3 - Maxim Litvinoff was replaced as Foreign Commissar...
...down to the sea in ships at one time or another cross the line. The line means a whole lot to these men; there is a venerable air and a patriarchal feeling that permeates the breast of an old shellback as he nears the 30th parallel...
Beethoven and Eliot. Readers familiar with the great "last quartets" of Beethoven will suspect that Eliot derived from them his title, much of his form, elements of his tone and content. They will almost certainly be right, for no other works in chamber music fit the parallel. Both Beethoven and Eliot are working with the most difficult and quintessential of all materials for art: the substance of mystical experience. Both, in the effort to translate it into art, have strained traditional forms and created new ones. Both use motif, refrain, counterpoint, contrasts both violent and subtle, the normal coinage...
...alternative to isolation is the all-too-obvious feeling: "Let's get in there and show those Limeys how things really ought to done"; usually accompanied by the corollary: "They're not very strong, but watch out for their tricks." It is, in economic terms, a parallel to the military attitude of Germans toward the British. It spells a sense of inferiority and perhaps guilt. For the benefit of a community leading citizens need to cooperate equably and equitably, not to engage in destructive rivalry. The same is true of leading nations of the world, particularly...
...Benjamin M. Anderson, famed onetime (1920-39) economic adviser to Manhattan's Chase National Bank-now professor of economics at University of California at Los Angeles-concluded an address before the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. His was the most severe criticism yet made of the different but parallel plans of Britain's Lord Keynes and the U.S. Treasury's Harry D. White (TIME, April...