Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parallel, yet ironically unrelated theme chews its way, month Like, into the already heavily woven fabrie of the work. Foreign students, There are many of them. They are "your fellows students who will help to make your summer of study a special learning experience." (Pihl) Many of them are serious whether about learning Physics or learning the English language and most are friendly. Many others speak only Spanish and kick soccer balls against your dorm room window at 5 a.m. Hurtling, spinning, crashing Chemistry textbooks and stereo components do not deter them. It is an irony unresolved...
...nature rise to a peculiarly close relationship. "The big artist," Eakins wrote, "keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools . .. Then he's got a canoe of his own, smaller than Nature's, but big enough for every purpose ... With this canoe he can sail parallel to Nature's sailing." To spend time along the wall in the Philadelphia Museum where Eakins' major paintings and drawings of rowers and shells are hung is, eventually, to see what he meant. The perspective setups have the gratuitous complexity of Uccello and the modernity of Sol LeWitt...
...governor The nominations are non-binding as the official Democratic candidates will not be decided until the September primary but many observes feel there is a good chance the two will share the ticket in November If that occurs, it will be only the latest in a series of parallel events in the two careers...
...relevance of Bitter Fruit. Schlesinger claims, is "almost cerie." He draws a striking parallel between the Eisenhower Administration and President Reagan's Washington. "It seemed inconceivable to me that a government like Eisenhower's with John Foster Dulles could come back into power in this country," he says. "Then you wake up one day and find Ronald Reagan in the White House and Al Haig as Secretary of State mounting the same polemical statements about communism in Central America as Eisenhower...
...Virgin Islands' lenient divorce laws struck them as halfhearted. And the court has occasionally appointed lawyers for indigent or inadequately represented litigants, as it did in 1963 when Abe Fortas was asked to argue Clarence Gideon's landmark right-to-counsel case. But such examples are scarcely parallel. In the current tax cases, says Democratic Congressman Don Edwards of California, "the question is: 'Is the Justice Department interested in enforcing civil rights...