Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost about $4 billion more than today's welfare; the most ambitious would cost $30 billion more. Neither calculation, however, reckons the present system's potential cost, which, without any modifications, might continue to expand indefinitely. Eventually, even the most generous supplement plan might seem cheap by comparison. As it is, the U.S. spends less proportionally on social welfare than almost any other industrial country...
...that the charges against him were wrong. Novelist William Styron and others who recently met with the poet in Russia say that they are certain he sent the wire to the Soviet leaders. Evtushenko was so sickened by the invasion, Styron reports, that he told him in a dubious comparison: "Now we Russians are just like you Americans; we are part of the international power Mafia...
...many and subtle distinctions are called for. The "late" plays, for instance, those written between Shaw's 70th and 85th birthdays, are not to be confused with the "dotages," those written after the Second World War. The Millionairess belongs to the former category, but in no way begs comparison with the body of other works written by men of 80. It is a first-class high comedy, as funny as anything Shaw ever wrote, which means as funny as anything anyone ever wrote. And the Charles Playhouse has done it up proud...
...mini-revolution of last May had eaten up a sizable share of France's gold reserves, as enormous amounts of consumer goods had to be imported, but it had by no means exhausted them. Relative to France's GNP or her international trade, they were still adequate in comparison with those of other nations, even the U.S. and other western European nations. True, the wage increases conceded last spring had triggered an eleven per cent increase in prices that would certainly affect France's balance of payments. But it was far from obvious that it would plunge France, consistently...
...among you whites. America should not be called 'the New World' any more; it should be called 'the Old World.' Its time is over." Geraldine Chaplin spoke of her father: "Certainly I'm afraid of my father. I feel this constant reproof, this constant comparison. I feel that only when I'm no longer in his shadow, when I'm no longer afraid of him, that only then will I finally be able to do something myself." Alfred Hitchcock gave one of the less-known reasons why he has filmed his thrillers over...