Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these two books, these two men, in common? You imply, rather you indeed say, that the Lettre aux Anglais is a raving book, a quixotic book, but of "greater sanity" (sic) than Mein Kampf! I have to make an effort to suppose that your collaborator meant well, but the parallel is scandalous. Please do keep in mind that only one out of 100,000 TIME readers has read through and understood Mein Kampf; therefore the majority will conclude that both elucubrations are of the same caliber, one in the positive, the other one in the negative sense. On the whole...
Also planned is a play by Louis Eno '44 based on the parallel between the Pelloponesian war and the present conflict, and a series of adaptations of great plays, starting with "Oedipus Rex," which will probably be given two weeks after the series opens...
...purpose of a film like Wake Island is to convince, startle, move and involve an audience to the highest possible degree. Toward that end, faces, bodies, machines, rhythms, darkness, light, silence & sound must build up a tension which is a plausible parallel to human fact. Wake Island is a cinematic defeat because it builds up this tension for brief moments, then relaxes...
Hitler, Napoleon, Stalin. Perhaps the neatest job of analysis and persuasion in Conditions of Peace is Author Carr's presentation of "the accidental, but remarkably close, parallel between the role of Napoleon and that of Hitler...
...sculler was on a parallel course with the Boonie and was racing along in a competitive spirit when he caught a crab, and his craft was turned broad-side to the onrushing Boonie. Blinded by the late afternoon sun, the captain of the larger vessel failed to notice the frail ship directly in his course, and they met with a rending of sculls...