Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stockholder) as long as the line owed the banks a dollar. He adopted a policy of gathering the line's executives together at semiannual meetings and hazing them unmercifully as they reported. Sample: "Now that's a hell of an alibi, if I ever heard one ... By comparison with what we know could be done, we smell to high heaven. Now put this on your Must List . . . memories are awfully short, especially yours...
...comparison between "Night Journey" and George Orwell's "1984" jumps out at the reader. Both books attempt to foresee a future world and future war through the extrapolation of present conditions, and stress the manipulation and distortion of the old channels of "truth," the press and the radio and the handbills. But "1984" attempted an all-inclusive description of a world, while "Night Journey" narrows that world into a few people in one small area and is exactly the more effective for that narrowing. The future world of "Night Journey" is a terrible, muddled, complicated thing. It is a logical...
Poet T. S. Eliot once said that he could fearlessly spend a night in a haunted house if Novelist Charles Williams were there to keep him company. Williams' supernatural thrillers make most hauntedhouse yarns seem treacly by comparison. But they are also the legacy of an intellectual, firmly orthodox Christian who calmly discovered God where many men would be embarrassed to look for Him. The Greater Trumps is the fifth of Williams' seven novels to be published in the U.S. since his death...
Fossil Crinoids." Though Natural History still proudly numbers many eminent scientists among its readers, 95% of the copies now go to laymen. Stories and pictures are chosen with an eye to popular appeal as well as professional soundness. Sample eye-catching layout: Anthropologist Harry L. Shapiro's comparison of the dimensions of "Norma" (the average young U.S. woman) with those of Powers Model Rosemary Sankey...
...their religion, but "to make of it a covert in which to hide from Christ." All too many, he says, use the Church to cushion the impact of Christianity, as a small boy about to be spanked stuffs napkins in the seat of his pants. "Or, to change the comparison, we may seek to be inoculated against Christianity with a churchly solution of one part Christianity to 99 parts respectability and good-fellowship. Good-fellowship and respectability are not poison; but they can, and frequently do, so dilute the grace of God as to render it almost powerless...