Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comparison with the arguments against a uniform room rate, arguments in its favor take on in general a secondary aspect. Certainly there are many which can be readily eliminated by a modification of the present system. One of the major objections to retaining rents as they are is that the deconversion which will result from moving upperclassmen into Quincy House would necessitate a drastic raise in the upper rent bracket. However, it appears that this possibility has been overemphasized. While deconversion may indeed occasion a small general increase in rents, most of the newly-vacated space will be taken...
With any such retelling comes the added fascination of comparison: it is like returning to a former home to see how someone else has furnished it. In Cue for Passion the furnishings are sparser and extremely modern, with a picture window to let in strong, clarifying, psychological light. Hamlet, called Tony Burgess, comes home-sulky, sneering, perverse-after two years in Asia, certain that his new stepfather was his mother's paramour, suspecting he is also his father's murderer. This is an Oedipus-uncomplex Hamlet, so drawn to his mother that he hated his father, so identified...
Already all South Africa has benefited from the government's racial practices, DuPlessis pointed out. "Nobody, but nobody, is going hungry is South Africa," and wage rates are "princely" in comparison with those of most other countries, the speaker held...
There are two exhibitions in Cambridge this month which are totally independent of each other but which invite comparison. One is the work of a student, the other of a lifetime. Their qualities are unlike and their eras disparate. Oddly, their weaknesses are much the same and a lesson lies therein...
...ruining the college life of our athletes; why don't you make a little survey to see how many of them are lacking friends or are isolated by their extra-curricular activities? An interesting comparison would be to make a similar survey of those on the CRIMSON staff...