Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lonely wheat town. He is competent and intelligent and resigned. His big, blonde wife has given him three children whom he can hardly approach, so deep is the gulf of misunderstanding. And the wife herself has been blinded by an accident. Yet it is she who, by comparison, takes on the heroic cast. She goes on doing the housework, baking the bread, coping with the children. As for Paul, he has found an escape hatch in amateur astronomy. Weather permitting, he is out on the prairie each night with his telescope, tailing comets and sifting nebulae, sending the reports...
...years the late Werner Heldt was called "the Utrillo of Berlin," a tag that enraged him all the more because it was based on the shallow observation that both he and Utrillo painted city streets. Both also drank. Yet that deprecatory comparison was about the measure of Heldt's renown at the time of his death seven years ago. This week Heldt is enjoying a sudden spurt of fame as the key figure of a new, nonabstract "Berlin School." The critical applause comes from a show in Wiesbaden of the collection of rich Machine-tool Maker Kurt Brandes...
...This operation bears no comparison to anything else in United Nations history," said the U.N.'s senior officer in Katanga. Conor Cruise O'Brien was vastly understating the case. In recalcitrant Katanga last week, scattered bands of blue-hel-meted troops-Indian, Swedish, Irish-were engaged in a battle to the death with a weird and formidable foe: the troops of Katanga President Moise Tshombe, some of them Baluba warriors smeared with warpaint, led by Europeans and backed by jet fighters...
...best thing in the film. In the delicate, spiritual face of Actor Perrin, the camera finds a compelling image of eternal youth, of the doomed and beautiful son-lover of the legends. Actress Cardinale seems almost ludicrously crude by comparison. But her faults are not all her fault. Director Valeric Zurlini, a well-known cheesecake vendor, incessantly interrupts the subtle drama of the script to turn his lens on Claudia's chest. He obviously intends the show to be a bust. And so, in the last analysis...
...their lovely money, and he can sometimes outdistance them in the moods of love and childhood or in evocations of the classic past. He cannot match Pound in the sheer demonic influence of his imagination, or Thomas in his song, or Auden in his topicality-in fact, a comparison will often make Auden sound like the journalist and Graves like the artist. Graves could not have written The Waste Land or The Age of Anxiety, two poems the public eagerly seized as symbols or at least slogans of the times. He is, in fact, out of his times, a reactionary...