Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband, she tells them to stay in bed until 4:30 p.m., then "put furniture polish behind your ears. It makes you smell tired when your husband comes home." W7hen her imagination flies, it sometimes lands in hyperbole that makes even Jonathan Winters seem summery by comparison. She sketches one woman who wears bronzed baby shoes for earrings...
...Lancer are lookalikes. Many dealers not only battle competitors but knock cars made by the same manufacturer. Dodge puts out a "confidential" booklet for Lancer salesmen pointing out the good features of the Lancer and the bad ones of the Valiant-though both are made by Chrysler. Sample comparison: "Lancer; new styling inside and out. Valiant; last year's styling." The Zestful Game. The wealth of car models-and the dearth of sales-has put new zest into that great American game: the battle of wits between car seller and buyer. Once the customer's main interest...
...idea that some Christian Scripture is mythological rather than historical, though held by many Protestant theologians, has kicked up a flurry of controversy around San Francisco's outspoken Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike (TIME, Feb. 24). The issue has its counterpart in Roman Catholicism. Cautious by comparison with Bishop Pike-who suggests that even the ancient doctrine of the virgin birth is a mythological way of presenting the paradox of Christ's simultaneous humanity and divinity-Catholic proponents of the idea avoid the word myth. But the new view of the Gospels is highly unsettling to Catholic conservatives...
...scanty clues, finds Gouffe's body and arrests his undoubted murderers-a sullen lout named Eyraudt, who had fled to, of all places, Chicopee, Mass., and a young prostitute named Gabrielle Bompard, who makes even the smoldering Justine of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet appear fairly innocuous by comparison...
...overall strength and amazing depth of this year's freshmen naturally invites comparison with the great Yardling team of the Class of '62. But, as coach Benn Merritt says, "I wasn't here at the time and am in no place to judge. All I can say is, they're good...