Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comparison, Les Fourberies de Scapin (roughly, "Scapin's Knavery") is a farcical hellraiser, with its resourceful scamp of a hero-the traditionally pert and clever servant-engineering a whole repertory of deceptions with a full battery of slapstick. Based on a famous Roman play, Terence's Phormio, Les Fourberies is served up in the famous Italian style of the commedia dell' arte. For their sons' sake, Scapin hoodwinks two miserly fathers-one of whom, as the price of Scapin's saving his life, has offered him a coat "after I've worn...
...seems to me that Arnold Toynbee, in his so-called "moral" comparison between the murder of 6,000,000 Jews and the displacement of 800,000 Arabs, has neglected to notice the very fundamental difference between murder and eviction. He may rest assured that if 6,000,000 Jews had been given the opportunity of leaving their homes and countries alive instead of being exterminated, they would have long since been readily assimilated and settled in other parts of the world, as are their more fortunate brethren who managed to survive...
...days, the valley's farmers supply the U.S. with 80% of its winter lettuce for an annual take of $22 million. Depending on Eastern supply and demand, prices rise and fall like a roller coaster. Says one grower: "It makes the stock market seem tame by comparison." Into this vulnerable area, where any work stoppage can ruin a season, moved the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to organize the valley's lettuce pickers...
...getting over a torn muscle above his right hip, which benched him for five games. After a game, win or lose, the exhausted players slump silently on stools in front of their lockers. Pro basketball is now so much tougher than big-league baseball that Cousy scoffs at any comparison: "One of those guys runs out a triple, and he looks like he needs a stomach pump...
...addition, Phillips pointed out that longer parietal hours would still be conservative in comparison with some other Ivy League schools such as Dartmouth, which allows very late hours on special occasions...