Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarry. "No one is pleased about the impending marriage," he said. "It's got everyone shook up." Mrs. Mary Jackson, Republican National Committeewoman for Rhode Island, a heavily Catholic state, said: "Remarriage would put him in a very bad position here." A Midwestern Republican Governor saw a historical parallel of sorts: "Everybody thought there was only one Prince of Wales who would give up a kingdom for the woman he loved. But maybe we've got another right here...
...Novel Expression. The human side of the triangle very nearly overwhelmed both the divine and the social. But the great parallel movement of the Renaissance and the Reformation powerfully reasserted the direct relation between man and God, conferring on the individual the freedom, but also the burden, of "the priesthood of all believers." And in the 17th century, society reached a new balance with man and God in the thought of John Locke, who believed in God as the ultimate guarantor of human rights, in natural law as the foundation of liberty and property, and in government as an arrangement...
...century politics. For the senior party, thoughtless or extreme stands cost votes, victories and jobs; for the more conservative Young Republicans, taking such stands costs only the respect of some of their elders, while the catharsis it brings usually seems worth that small price (It should be observed that parallel situations arise in many liberal organizations...
...HINO CONTESSA 900 SPRINT is the latest entry in what may be a drive by the Japanese to parallel their postwar success in the camera field. The Italian-designed Contessa is a small, stylish two-seater with a 45-h.p. motor and a price that is right: about...
Professor Weber's books, fabulously documented, is preeminently a social history, filled with anecdotes about men whose involvement in the political life of their times was of a sort without parallel in any other country. For the Action Francaise was a personal movement, not a party; it was an organization built almost solely on individual passion and concern about the destruction of Western civilization at the hands of democratic decadence and communist barbarism. And to save it, the Action Francaise offered not a platform, not a programme, but the example of their devotion to la grande France: France, only France...