Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice of white supremacy rang defiantly in the Birmingham News, which referred to South African Negroes as "extras from a Hollywood safari movie." The Charleston News and Courier ("South Carolina's Most Outspoken Newspaper") used the assassination attempt to draw a parallel with Southern white integrationists: "The fact that it was a white man, not a native, who shot Verwoerd should surprise no one. Though racial revolution has spread across the Dark Continent, it would be easily put down but for the white men whose feelings of guilt, fear or misplaced idealism drive them to fight against their...
...manner to Washington, a city where today's club conversation can become tomorrow's headline. Developed in relatively leakproof London, Macmillan's style is more frank than diplomatic, and he likes nothing better than to ramble amiably from subject to subject, drawing liberally on historical parallel. In Washington, Macmillan had indeed discussed Britain's trade troubles with the Common Market...
...striped T shirts. Using balloons for balls, they played a frantic game of soccer that brought futebol-mad Brazilians screaming to their feet. Gosha, the Russian bear, came on for the finale to ride a bicycle, toss a few somersaults, wrestle gently with his trainer and balance ponderously on parallel bars. Then the lights went out, and Gosha steered a sputtering motorcycle around the arena by the glow of the headlight alone. As the Brazilians stamped, jumped, clapped and screamed "Bravo!" for a full three minutes, Gosha modestly waved...
...first won fame for its power, in microscopic doses, to induce hallucinations and a psychotic state-both temporary-roughly parallel to those of schizophrenia. But several psychiatrists on both sides of the Atlantic have sought to turn the drug to advantage in treating real mental illnesses. Now, from the Psychiatric Institute of Beverly Hills, Drs. Arthur L. Chandler and Mortimer A. Hartman report using LSD as a "facilitating agent" in treating 110 patients...
...avoiding these dangers, a few professors have taken a path closely parallel to General Education. Without doubt, this is better than specialization, but one must question whether it is even close to the best use of the opportunity seminars present. General Education and advanced study are not the only possible patterns of learning...