Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deep Sleep) writes with an almost British smoothness-ex cept when he lapses into a stream-of-consciousness cablese that makes him sound like a Western Union clerk on the analyst's couch. Morris offers many rewarding moments of major excitement and minor truth. But he deliberately invites comparison with Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and beside these great American romantic realists, Morris looks perhaps adult but certainly dull. Where Fitzgerald could turn rotgut into champagne, Morris turns champagne into Alka-Seltzer...
McNiff has estimated that Lamont will cost $20 an hour to keep open after normal closing time in comparison to an estimated $5 an hour to keep the House library system open. But says Reynolds, this assumes that the Houses should adequately take care of the students who use Lamont without additional improvements. Actually, he continued, an average of 300 study late in Lamont at exam time, a figure too large for House libraries to handle. The lighting, in particular at Adams and Wintrhop, is especially poor...
...well; since only a small percentage of the total number of applicants can be admitted, the admissions office can afford to be highly selective. The result is that the co-eds average three points or more above their male rivals on the Cornell marking system. That invaluable source of comparison, the former Harvard section man, even ventured to say that they are as smart as Radcliffe girls...
...sheer physical size, Cornell outdistances any other Ivy school by almost any standard of comparison. The Ithaca campus sprawls over thousands of acres, and the University also has considerable chunks of land in Geneva, N. Y., Buffalo, and New York City, where the Medical and Nursing Schools are located...
...Lollobrigida won the Silver Ribbon (the Italian Oscar) for her work in this picture, and in truth she throws herself into the part so violently that once or twice she almost throws herself out of her dress. She is perhaps unwise thus to spoil her own act by inviting comparison with a far more spectacular...