Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though they publicly deplore the violent tactics of the Jewish Defense League, many Jewish leaders in private welcome the pride-inducing effect they have had-an almost exact parallel of the attitude of many blacks toward the Panthers, whose belligerency has enabled all blacks to walk a little taller. The new Jewish militancy, for all its conscious rejection of the past, contains its own inevitable version of soul...
...been written out of existence; they were reduced to mere attendant lords, thunderbolt carriers to swell a scene or two. Nineteenth century rationalism seemed to finish them off for good. The remark of a Victorian doctor, that he had never met the soul in a dissection, found its artistic parallel in Gustave Courbet...
...Before the Geneva conference of 1954, when Viet Nam was divided into North and South, Ho Chi Minh visited Moscow. The Communists had not yet scored their stunning victory at Dienbienphu and their situation was "very grave," says Khrushchev. When the Russians heard that France proposed the 17th Parallel as the dividing line at the conference, "we gasped with surprise and pleasure. The 17th Parallel was the absolute maximum we would have claimed ourselves...
...distrust of theory and doctrine was summed up by Liang K'ai, an artist of the early 13th century, who captured in a few exquisitely jagged brush strokes an illiterate patriarch, howling with glee, tearing up a sutra, or sacred text. It is an Oriental parallel to St. Paul's remark that "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life...
...raid coincided with the bombing strikes south of the 19th parallel in retaliation for the loss of a U.S. RF4 reconnaissance plane over North Viet Nam on Nov. 13. Those bombings were justified on the grounds that Hanoi had violated the "understanding" Washington claims it reached when Lyndon Johnson called a halt to bombing North Viet Nam on Nov. 1, 1968. (The U.S. insists that under the terms of the understanding it has the right to overfly North Viet Nam with unarmed reconnaissance aircraft. Hanoi denies that it agreed to such an arrangement...