Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...implication that it is not the place to go if you want to be a practicing doctor. In reality, what Harvard attempts to do is to give the student a thorough grounding in basic science so that he can go on to good research or good practice. By comparison, it is, indeed, a research school, since most medical schools lack teachers who can integrate contemporary developments in the life sciences into a medical curriculum. If you are the sort of person who can't wait to start saving lives, be warned: during your first two years, you will have...
...Stieglitz met the painter Georgia O'Keeffe, whom he married the next year. His portraits of her, 15 of which are exhibited at the Fine Arts, are nothing short of brilliant. His portraits of other people, by comparison, are disappointing. The reason for this disparity is simple: for Stieglitz, the photographic protrait is a part of possessing someone. It begins at birth, continues throughout life and death, and then begins again with the subject's child. Everything is photographed--hands, feet, torsos, moods, emotions. Stieglitz came close to such photographic possession only with his wife...
...comparison group received just as many injections of material that not only looked the same but raised an identical red wheal. The two different types of shots were labeled only with coded numbers; the doctors did not know which patient was getting which...
When the frost was on the pumpkin and the ragweed menace died, the code was broken and checked against the record of patients' complaints. Those who had had ragweed extract in their shots were found to have had only about half the comparison group's episodes of sneezing, nose running, eye watering and itching. It was official at last: those millions of injections were worth the cost and discomfort...
Speaking to more than 1400 college presidents and administrators at the annual meeting of the American Council on Education, Katzenbach said that student grievances, "however deeply felt, are so pallid by comparison with those of the Negro that to demonstrate over them can be to dilute and debase the moral significance of demonstrations for civil rights...