Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chaliapin's background: For comparison, would you care to show your readers The Temptation of Eve by Michelangelo in the Sistine ceiling...
...comparison contains some obvious political lessons. F.D.R.'s every act was packaged in political salesmanship, sometimes at the level of political theory, more often in direct appeals to the self-interest of voter groups. Eisenhower's changes have, in general, been allowed to speak for themselves-which means, in practice, that Eisenhower's opponents have held the stage in interpreting his policies...
...Picasso, the only one still living, has always been more easily bored than the others, and has always come back bursting with new beauties. If much of his work is mud, the best is thunder and lightning which makes Matisse's rainbow splendor seem a bit thin by comparison...
...Brown generally stands aloof on its strengths, it must compete with other Ivy Group colleges in the matter of admissions. Dean of Admission Emery R. Walker allows himself a few comparisons, which he sums up with, "We can match 'em with any college." But Walker ignores comparison when he is selling Brown to a candidate...
...comparison," Mitchell stated, "previous policies tended to permit more students to enter graduate school, but fewer to attain their higher degrees...