Word: parallels
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...lost to that stained-glass refectory forever). But at yesterday evening's Study Break with University President Drew G. Faust (sorry Drew, Larry was a better dancer: see left, with the original caption) and Dean Thomas A. Dingman ’67, students entered a parallel universe of chocolate crepes, hot apple cider, and….a dance floor waiting to be thronged with freshmen letting off Reading Period steam...
...Perhaps the most interesting Orwell - Lu Xun parallel concerns 1989's Tiananmen crisis. Audiences outside China, appalled by the government's use of lethal force against the students and the cynical cover-up campaign that followed, found it natural to criticize the Orwellian behavior of China's leadership. In China, it was just as natural for critics of the government to voice their outrage via quotations from Lu Xun's famous essay on the slayings of 1926 - allusions that all educated Chinese recognized as a potent way of saying that the current regime was little better than the hated warlords...
Though his argument is not without merit, we worry that Obama’s lack of commitment to protecting democracy will give Afghan citizens a sense that the U.S. is not fully committed to their well-being and that the Afghan government is no more legitimate than the parallel one operated by the Taliban. They, and Pakistan, will rightly continue to hedge their bets and be non-committal to either warring party...
...Maybe their journey seemed more natural to me than to others because it was so parallel to mine,” the father says. “I wanted to marry Billy’s mom the first week I met her, so as the next step in their relationship it seemed perfectly right...
...five sections, Bolaño’s odd-footed parsing of racial and radical politics from New York City has a Kafkaesque absurdity about it (cf. “Amerika”). The world Fate inhabits is awkwardly fleshless, but the details he chooses can illuminate whole parallel universes; “[T]he Mohammedan Brotherhood caught his attention because they were marching under a big poster of Osama bin Laden. They were all black and they were all wearing black leather jackets and black berets and sunglasses, which gave them a vague resemblance to the [Black] Panthers, except...