Word: parallels
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...prolonged negotiations, the organization of an extensive educational program, the establishment of an organization to exert constant pressure, are all avoided. The tactics can be described as "instantism." There is a chiliastic aspect--a dramatic action to be followed expectantly by dramatic reulsts. Here again there is a parallel to syndicalism and the I.W.W.--the use of force to correct a current grievance, perhaps someday a general strike, but no permanent collective bargaining and no contracts which only bind you when you want to fight, as the "wobblies" said. There is little perspective of time. The emphasis...
...Pincus Pills." Probably no single name will be forever linked with the pills, as is Jenner's with vaccination. The search for medically useful knowledge nowadays goes along parallel lines at many places, often with a team working at each center. But Physiologist Gregory Pincus of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology and Gynecologist John Rock of Harvard University rate high among the pioneers of oral contraception. It was at Harvard, too, that Dr. Fuller Albright noted in the mid-1940s that an excess of estrogen* in the bloodstream soon after the end of menstruation somehow prevented ovulation...
Half a dozen of the most potent drugs used by physicians have been known for years to cause changes in the chromosomes in some of the body's cells, with the parallel risk that they might also cause genetic defects if the patient later became a parent. Up to now, such drugs have been used only in the treatment of advanced cancer, so the danger to children has been minimal. But last week, in the journal Science, a team of researchers at the State Uni- versity of New York in Buffalo reported that LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), the favorite...
Danger of Gasoline. His latest trip to Viet Nam, in fact, was taken primarily for medical reasons. He was anxious to see how an amputee program, which he started 15 months ago, was progressing. As he visited 20 hospitals from the 17th parallel to the Gulf of Siam, he was struck by the fact that some 85% of admissions were for disease and accidents. Some of the ac cidents involved gasoline burns. Because the cost of charcoal and kerosene has soared, some Vietnamese have tried to make do with stolen gasoline; hundreds have been burned in the resulting explosions...
...reactions of the townspeople, falsely accused of witchcraft by Abigail, the depraved 18-year-old, closely parallel the response to the "Are you now or have you ever been...?" of the HUAC hearings. When, John Proctor, the play's hero, agrees to confess his own sins but refuses to "name names," he is repeating Lillian Hellman's stand before the Committee; The Crucible is a textbook of such reactions...