Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking again of Russian collections as compared to Western ones, Slive declared that very little modern Russian art was on display. The collection of avant garde European art was "spectacular," even in comparison with those of leading Western museums, but practically no 20th century Russian paintings were shown...
...theme song of the welfare state ("Why should I care, why should I let it touch me?")-is never less than a magnificent metaphor but always less than convincing; and for U.S. audiences, it may even be less than interesting. What's more, the film sometimes suffers by comparison with the play. The outdoor scenes let too much fresh air into Archie's grubby little life, and the audience loses its physical sense of his essential experience: moral suffocation...
...wide range of activities in the fifty universities makes comparison of their available number (3 per cent) with the total figure of institutions misleading. While much talent does pass by local schools for the wealthier ones, it does not do so because of any devious recruiting by several academic Oklahomas. Holland states that need analysis and standardized stipends "cement" the concentration of talent; yet this suggestion that all schools should bid for talent in a scholarship market-place would make a student's choice of college a narrowly financial affair...
...their initial working paper last spring the Committees suggested "destruction of thermonuclear weapons" as an "independent American initiative." In the final Statement, however, the passages on unilateral disarmament were omitted; the new emphasis is on "unilateral steps toward disarmament." For purposes of comparison, the working paper position of unilateral disarmament is included the following text, set off in and small type...
...Rattner speaks with bitterness in his special idiom of the "art burlesque stage of today the dehumanized designs that will "freeze one out of his livingness." His own canvases are often battlefields of hope and despair, evil and salvation-elongated figures imbedded in chunks of burning colors. By comparison, his window at first glance seems almost coldly abstract, but it is in fact a work of passion...