Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comparison to Steinbeck's earlier novels, "East of Eden" has greater variation in mood and less singleness of theme. Because of the loose construction, one does not fell the direct impact found in such a work as "The Grapes of Wrath...
...despite the paucity of fruitful gatherings, it remains that more tolerance, more sanity, more hope has come of this year's meetings than anyone could have imagined several years ago. In fact, a comparison of the seven years following World War 1, when glibness and myopia swept the country, and the years since 1945, when the only reminder of the bad old days is the Scnate's nortorious Class of '46, adds a shinier gloss to what few blessings there...
Finally, at Kasson, Minn., Ike faced direct comparison with the best Democratic stump speaker to come out of Illinois since Stephen A. Douglas-and Ike's friends were satisfied that their man had not come off second best...
...Berlin, 9,000 jazz fans crowded into Berlin's Sportspalast for the annual German jitterbug championship, watched husky Helga Haier, 21, and her real cool partner Dieter Heidemann, 20, stomp, slide and swivel their way to first place in a style that, by comparison, made many a U.S. practitioner of the art look like a whirling dervish with lumbago. ¶In Paris, two great American institutions-the quiz program and the striptease-were ingeniously fused. Every night, in a nightclub called L'Academic des Vins, a model named Mile. Genevieve appears, tastefully clad, on the stage while...
...despite the paucity of fruitful gatherings, it remains that more tolerance, more sanity, more hope has come of this year's meetings than anyone could have imagined several years ago. In fact, a comparison of the seven years following World War 1, when glibness and myopia swept the country, and the years since 1945, when the only reminder of the bad old days is the Scnate's nortorious Class of '46, adds a shinier gloss to what few blessings there...