Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hamilton (Vivien Leigh), wife of Britain's Minister to the Court of Naples. Ostensibly, this British-bred, Hollywood-made film tries to tell it in epic tones. Actually, with the subtlety of a sock on the jaw, it is more concerned with informing U. S. cinemaudiences of the parallel between Britain's struggle against Napoleonic tyranny and her current tangle with Hitler...
...attacker to a first-rate shindy. European Turkey, the small patch of land north of the Dardanelles hinged on Istanbul, is divided from Bulgaria by ranges of formidable hills. In them the Turks have spent four years maneuvering extensively. They also have two fortified lines: the Maritsa Line, running parallel to the river of that name from the Aegean to Edirne (Adrianople) and from there to the Black Sea, and the Chatalja Line, about 20 miles north of the Bosporus. Behind these run The Straits. To man her defenses Turkey has an Army of about 25 divisions, two armored brigades...
Last week the council produced some of its evidence. It made public an analysis showing a "perfect, uninterrupted parallel" between articles in The New York Teacher, Local 5's official publication, and changes in the Communist Party line. By "acrobatic teamwork" and "simultaneous somersaults," the council charged. The New York Teacher followed the Communists from isolation to collective security and back again to isolation...
...picture to be shown to the public, and it seemed very likely that none would ever be. Old Mr. William Randolph Hearst, who had only heard reports of the picture through his cinematic eyes, ears and tongue, Columnist Louella Parsons, thought the life of Kane was too close a parallel to the life of Hearst...
...captain of a ship is like a priest. He is not a mere man, but a symbol of authority. The world of the ship is more strict than any the landlubber knows, yet it is a microcosm of the wider world and its hierarchical values. Upon this parallel, Marcus Goodrich has built the story of Delilah, a U. S. destroyer, a world of 71 men. By any standards, it is a top-notch yarn. But what frames the story, gives it symbolic sense, restrains the turbulent narrative from getting too diffuse, clarifies each character, even makes amends for the faulty...