Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same page with this inspired thought, a poor playwright like Shakespeare, who can only say something about "Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care," must suffer by comparison. When you come right down to it, it was very generous of Mr. Prochnow to give as much space as he did in his book to people like Shakespeare, Shaw, Oscar Wild, Rochcfoucaulde, and so forth...
...years at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and his present interment in the Army have not dulled the wit of George Jerome Goodman '52. He has fashioned a novel about a Harvard undergraduate whose antics defy comparison. Maybe Charlie Garnier's outlook is normal, but his projects certainly are not. The Bubble Makers is as lively a story as polished writing and a subtle sense of irony can make it. Goodman's first book is riotous reading...
...some of her quiet narratives of relationship between people, the poet reaches a colloquial ease that can hardly avoid comparison to Robert Frost...
...concerned ever quite believed the picture was going to be released. A musical remake of the 1942 movie (starring Rosalind Russell) that was, in turn, adapted from the 1940 Broadway play based on the humorous New Yorker stories by Ruth McKenney, the film must inevitably face comparison with Broadway's Wonderful Town, the hit musical (also starring Rosalind Russell) that derived from the same stories. The comparison is devastatingly in favor of Wonderful Town...
...Kabinenroller, built by famed Airplane Designer Willy Messerschmitt, is the first of a new class of West German midget cars to go on sale in the U.S. The midgets, which make even the little Volkswagen look like a Cadillac by comparison, were born of German auto taxes, including a stiff purchase tax, an annual levy of about $3.42 per 100 cc. of engine displacement, plus compulsory liability insurance costing anywhere from $11.87 a year to $106.87, depending on horsepower. Thus, a Volkswagen's yearly tax and insurance cost is $76, about as much as the average West German earns...