Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...written in an open letter to the Harvard faculty concerning the controversy over an appointment to Professor Arnold Harberger, [to the Harvard Institute for International Development] that "allowing political judgements to influence faculty appointments is a threat to the fundamental principles of academic freedom," and had drawn "a parallel between the protests lodged against Harberger and the climate created in the early 1950s by Joseph McCarthy...
...Historically, we have been slow to think and act in these terms. It has cost us dearly. After World War II, an American Secretary of State declared that Korea was not within the U.S. sphere of interes.. A short time later, North Korean troops attacked across the 38th parallel. A few months later, entering Seoul with elements of X Corps, I saw evidence of Soviet military presence down to the battalion level in the North Korean army...
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Among the feature sections, Religion, Medicine, Education and Video drew the most reaction. Of course, mail does not always parallel interest: the year's biggest seller on the newsstands, "Babies: What Do They Know? When Do They Know It?", drew a moderate 299 letters, only 14th highest for the year...
Jackson did not help his cause in an interview with Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline. "I've listened to many Jews say, looking at the Holocaust, that they went to the gas chambers much too silently," Jackson said.* He was trying to draw a parallel with the persecution and deaths of blacks since slavery days; like Jews, he said, blacks were vowing "never again...