Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simple comparison of last Saturday's times with Harvard performances is misleading because Princeton ran on Penn's "Tartan" track, a composition of cork and rubber which is faster than Harvard's cinder surface...
...traced it to Birmingham-where it had been sold the day before the slaying-but whether it was really the murder weapon was uncertain. Clark initially hinted that a ballistic test had yielded positive results. Subsequent reports that the unjacketed slug had been too badly mashed for a definite comparison to be made went undenied. Whether the palm and thumbprints, thought to be the assassin's, were of any help was also kept secret. Other rumors died quickly, such as the one that had a Memphis police officer under secret arrest. Said Assistant Police Chief U. T. Bartholemew...
...rape of Nanking or the massacre of 400,000 Communists in Indonesia. Watts and Detroit were tea parties compared with assorted mass slaughters in India, Nigeria and Red China. What country has the world's highest homicide rate? El Salvador, with 30.1 deaths per 100,000 people. In comparison, the U.S. rate stands at around...
...they gain in affluence, tend to abandon fundamentalist churches. Says Detroit N.A.A.C.P. Leader Robert Tindal, describing the Negro's Christian status ladder: "When you're poor, you're Baptist; when you advance slightly, you become a Methodist; when you arrive you're an Episcopalian." By comparison with King and other outspoken Southern pastors, the majority of Northern clergy have been much more passive in the struggle for equality-and have allowed the movement to fall into militant secular hands. Like many white churches, Negro congregations have found themselves alienated from skeptical youth-and teen-age looters...
...large gallery full of airy, forgettable abstract canvases. These are meant to support the French thesis that Paris, and not New York, invented abstract expressionism in the 1950s (the French call their version tachisme, or staining). Hélas pour la grandeur, for just the reverse is shown. By comparison with the work turned out by the dynamic U.S. action painters, the French products look timid, prettified and unconvincing?with a few exceptions, most notably the stark abstractions of Pierre Soulages...