Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...involves standards of comparison. It is easy to sigh for the days of Senators with tongues of silver and minds of steel, to forget that some of today's Senators rank high in character and vision, that few of the present Senators are as bad as some specimens of recent history-the Bilbos, Huey Longs, "Pappy" O'Daniels and "Cotton Ed" Smiths. Some are merely time servers and seat warmers who are as incapable of harm as of greatness. There are others whose antics are sometimes cheap and whose motivations are sometimes sordid. But their faults...
Ingenious juggling of Russian production figures is absorbing several members of Gerschenkron's staff. Donald Hodgman is constructing an independent index of Russian industry, based solely on Russian figures, which "have a considerable upward bias." Hodgman will then try to make some sort of comparison with U. S. output...
...grades of habitual viewers were lower than before television came to the area. These figures applied to those who watched TV for more than 25 hours a week. Only 14 percent of students who squinted at sets for under 10 hours a week had poorer marks. And in a comparison between two test groups of equal I.Q.'s--one of which had TV sets at home and one which did not--it was discovered that the latter averaged 19 percent better in grades than did the group exposed to living room TV. Further proof as to the accuracy of this...
Time & Changes. In Hiroshima, Author Hersey turned in one of the best pieces of factual reporting in many a day and in his earlier novel, A Bell for Adano, he achieved a considerable success in the field of fictional treatment of fact in which The Wall is a failure. Comparison of the three gives some measure of his gifts and shortcomings. A Bell for Adano's strength was its immediate relevance to a situation faced by the Allied Military Government in Italy. Time and changes in the situation have worn much of the book's luster away. Author...
...movie fails in comparison to its predecessors because of a misplaced dramatic emphasis and the generally stilted acting. Before Killing himself, the boy has already poisoned his father so that there will be more food for the rest of the family; thus the climax can come at either one of the two deaths. As for the acting, the German east seems to lack a familiarity with the warm, off-hand touches of Rossellini's style. The most important thing about "Germany Year Zero" is its implication that selectivity is at work, that the only survivors of such desolation will...