Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congratulate TIME for the article. The dedicated leadership, labor statesmanship and social philosophy of Walter Reuther have endeared him to the rank and file everywhere. By any standard of comparison he is the labor leader of the century...
...Bazin: "The Corneilleian simplicity of the western scenario has often been parodied. It is true that it is easy to detect an analogy to Le Cid: same conflict between love and duty, same knightly deeds, resulting in the virgin consenting to forget the insults to her family . . . But this comparison is ambiguous: to mock westerns by evoking Corneille is also to point out their grandeur, a grandeur perhaps close to puerility, even as childhood is close to poetry . . . Everyone, children and simple men, recognizes the naive grandeur of western movies. Epic and tragic heroes are universal . . . The trek west...
Peking opera hit Paris last week, and Paris was fascinated. "The most beautiful spectacle in the world," marveled the weekly Carrefour, "More than original and singular . . . prodigious," said Le Figaro. "By comparison," added the awed Arts, "Frenchmen see themselves as barbarians." Night after night, the company, official representative of the People's Republic of China to Paris' International Theater Festival, exploded like a magnum of vintage champagne...
...slower advance of "modernis" is found with an academic comparison involving the same 25-year span. In February of 1930, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell proudly proclaimed, "There is no such thing as a Harvard type." Today more Harvard men represent the midwest and the far-west, but the University has yet to achieve recognition of its "type." While the movies and cigarettes and coca-cola grow bigger, the College Undergraduate still acts and thinks in his own private little way and a history of the final two years of today's reunion class could easily substitute for the last...
Cigarettes & Liquor. Wynder and colleagues studied 209 U.S. victims of larynx cancer, 132 of lung cancer (for comparison), and 209 victims of other diseases, including some forms of cancer, of the same ages and backgrounds as the larynx-cancer cases. Their key findings...