Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's Task Force on Suburban Problems made a separate but parallel report, with the aid of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In suburbia, it says, "the dullness of existence is acutely felt by many older suburbanites and is often tragically reflected in the behavior of their children. Suburban vandalism, drug offenses and larceny by the young are on the rise." The report makes clear that it is no longer justified, if it ever was, to think of suburbia only as a split-level heaven with neat picket fences. In fact, the term suburbia has become...
...suburbs do not stand alone," says the report. "They are an integral part of the great metropolitan areas where two out of three Americans already live. Help to the troubled central city and the suburb must move in parallel. Without the improvement of both, all will suffer...
Common Beginnings, Parallel Paths...
...parallel paths of Nixon and Rogers continued as both made names for themselves as investigators in the big scandals of the Truman Administration...
...Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Seeger. In that decision, Justice Tom Clark broadly interpreted the test of religious belief. To qualify as a C.O., wrote Clark, a man's convictions must be "sincere and meaningful" and "occupy a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by the orthodox belief in God." Seeger, who had voiced "skepticism about the existence of God," did not go so far as to call himself an atheist. Clark pointed this out, concluding that "the question is not, therefore, one between theistic and atheistic beliefs. We do not deal with...