Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gaslights! The first thing James Ryan wanted to be was a garbageman, the second thing was a priest. "Some Baptists will find a comparison in that," he cracks. A high point of his youth was when his father, a minor politician, wangled the first electricity in his "back-of-the-stock-yards" neighborhood. So impressive was this that when his sister read about "wanton women standing under gaslights, leading men down sinful paths," the future Bishop exclaimed: "How awful-gaslights...
...Texas, where most of the cooking is so bad that bicarb has replaced the after-dinner cordial, many topnotch restaurants, such as Azzarelli's in Houston, are ignored. So many routine drive-ins are listed in Arkansas that top-drawer restaurateurs complain that their own stars pale in comparison...
...lavish White House dinner for Bourguiba, Kennedy delivered a toast that likened the evening's guest to George Washington. In reply, Bourguiba raised a glass of lukewarm orange juice to say that he was flattered by the comparison, then added that his real hero was Abraham Lincoln, because, like him, "I found my country deeply divided, and for 25 years I have struggled to achieve the unification of my people...
...destroyed the rocket, which had deviated badly from its course. In a month of U.S. flops, this was the pffft seen around the nation-and even if, as scheduled, the U.S. sent a man on a long, downrange missile ride this week, the feat would still seem puny in comparison with the achievement of the Soviet Union's Major "Gaga" Gagarin...
...agreement with order of prizewinners stop I found Reynolds Price's "O day in Late July" often dull in comparison of the others in this volume. points out its Faulknerian nature; it seems unfortunately neither an advance in style (hard to imagine) nor so profound...