Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...malfunctioning. Harvard has failed to formulate long-range policy but instead has relied on often-delayed stop gap measures to partially head off greater disaster. A study of the House system and freshman assignments being conducted this summer by the dean of the College's office is inadequate without parallel action by other facets of the Administration, including among others, the University's fund raisers, planning office and freshman dean's office...
Admittedly Watergate is a very large lapse, with no near parallel in our past. In his speech the President was much too quick to put Watergate behind him and turn to the "larger duties" of his office-the economy, foreign policy...
Perhaps Hodler's clearest claim to the recognition so long denied him consists in the series of bluish, highly structured landscapes which lead directly to the rough, brightly colored landscapes of German Expressionism. These depict jagged mountains or seething lakes and are constructed according to Hodler's notions of "parallelism," as he called his method of discovering parallel and reflective patterns in nature...
...Ibsen, and the two artists have much in common. Like Joyce, Ibsen lived by "silence, exile and cunning," fleeing Norway to live abroad for 27 years. Both men abandoned their native countries physically and yet were able to repossess and be possessed by them psychically and aesthetically. As a parallel to the Greek dictum "Know thyself," both Ibsen and Joyce say "Free thyself." This is no faddish preachment to "do your own thing" but a call to an austere heroism and indomitability that dares to stand alone...
Those preliminary results parallel the experience of Ohio, the first state to try the shock-probation process. There, 4,014 prisoners have been released after serving only two or three months since the plan went into effect in 1966. Only 9% of them have had to go back to jail while the national recidivism rate is estimated as from...