Word: comparison
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cursory comparison of the list of winners and the original slate of nominations shows a marked parallel between position on the ballot and success in the election, a parallel that dramatizes student apathy toward the Council, and at the same time exposes the weakness of the Council in managing all the interlocking ramifications which go into the administration of a democratic election...
Contents: a devout essay in praise of the Virgin Mary; a comparison of the two worlds represented by Rockefeller Center and its neighbor, St. Patrick's Cathedral; an amateurish satire on the totalitarian state; two denunciations of modern materialism. A reactionary point of view pervades the sharp, provocative piece, "Are You Ashamed of the Gospel?", which pulls Catholics up short for yielding to liberal influences, for forgetting that separation of church & state, freedom of worship & speech, freedom of conscience on religious revelation have special and limited meanings for Catholics...
...government economists were not the only prophets of boom. "Outlook," a Wall Street investment weekly, declares jubilantly: "Profits in prospect for industrial corporations generally over the next few years are likely to make 1929 and 1937 look small by comparison." While the big days of 1929 are being made to look small by today's high-profit businessmen, while rising prices increase profit margins and the swollen net profits of wartime are surpassed in the rush to "get yours," who will be thinking of that day several years from now when the seemingly inexhaustible consumer demand created by wartime shortages...
...first comparison that thinking American audiences will probably make is between this British film and some of the stupendous offerings of the West Coast celluloidaterias. Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, described Howard as being "just middle-aged once," are small, quiet, English bourgeoisie who are thrown, by chance, into a tragedy of love from which they will never emerge. Miss Johnson, as a housewife, is forty and looks it. She is not pretty. Her clothes are plain and her hair shows the results of innumerable "permanents" at a local beauty-parlor. Trevor Howard is a doctor, slightly bald, whose suits...
...much hope? Seemingly, he must walk the razor's edge between cynicism and sentimentalism, a man of faith, but yet one who constantly submits that faith to rigorous analysis and criticism. A man determined not to confine his ideals to noble platitudes, but to afford them real meaning by comparison of various concrete approximations of those ideals. And, finally, not a revolutionist, yet something more than a gradualist--a believer in "rapid evolution...