Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Banks of reporters from Paris and London came down to tell the story for their readers. A U.S. movie producer dropped by to measure the film possibilities of Gaston's case. Famed French Author Jean Giono was on hand to get material for a book. By comparison with Gaston's trial, said one enthusiastic French crime reporter, "the theaters of Paris are dull...
...electronic means. The composition got notice as far away as Baltimore, where the Sun protested: "Down with Space Music . . . Give us a penny whistle." Sandwiched between Stravinsky's Firebird and Paul Creston's Symphony No. 3, the work actually was surprisingly gentle on the ears; by comparison, the unidentifiable flutings and reverberations from the machine sounded only slightly outlandish...
...comparison, Ruth's story-helped by winning performances from Virginia Vincent and Harvey Lembeck-is entertaining, though at an inch-above-comic-strip level. It suggests that when Playwright Reeves abandons pretenses and writes to please in a straight popular-comedy vein, he may very well prove pleasing...
...When he held a scholarship at London's Royal Academy of Music, young MacEwan auditioned for the great McCormack. Father MacEwan doesn't remember what he sang, but he says with quiet pride: "He thought I was 'guid.' I want to steer clear of any comparison with him. But he thought I was 'guid.' " So did London society, but in the midst of acclaim, Singer MacEwan felt call to the priesthood: "The spirit quickeneth where it will...
Intellectual competition has been another standard comparison between Harvard and Yale. It was once claimed, with considerable truth, that Harvard flunked out a great number of students--sometimes nearly 30 percent of the first year class...