In fact, in 1972 Wallace Terry was hired by the US Air Force to examine parallel racial predicaments in Germany; and today he is adamant that "Colin Powell would not have become chairman of the joint chiefs had it not been for those black kids protesting in Vietnam.
Act II opens with an unexpected solo for the actress playing Nancy, Phil's one-night stand, which undercuts the story's white-man centrism while drawing a nifty parallel between Phil's predicament and the fate of Broadway actors, who also go through the same motions night after night.
You can make what you will of the story's parallels to Léna's predicament.
Mr. Deal's predicament has parallels to financial problems experienced by another Republican politician, Christine O'Donnell, the Tea Party-endorsed Senate candidate in Delaware who won in an upset in Tuesday's primary election.
Persistently falling prices also were at the heart of Japan's so-called lost decade after the catastrophic collapse of its real estate bubble at the end of the 1980s — a period in which some experts now find parallels to the American predicament.
Whenever I ask myself what blackness means to me, I am struck by the parallels that exist between my predicament and that of many Western Jews, who struggle with questions of assimilation at a time when marrying outside the faith is common.
Gomez sees the parallels between Argentina's current predicament and the one he left behind in Venezuela, though he feels Argentina's crisis is tame compared to the complete social breakdown suffered in Venezuela. .
ML: Our current political predicament has strong parallels with the late 1970s: a lot of either/or "posturing" (your choice of words is apt) and almost as much genuinely fundamental either/or thinking.
To overcome this predicament, we re-arranged the parallel alignment into concentric circle pattern which made it possible to collect the mechanical energy whenever the deformation is along same axis or not.
Vice President for Creativity Dan Houser made parallels with this representation, and the more recent predicament of the modern society of America.
