Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seated behind a pile of groceries and waving a package of Velveeta as she talked, Mrs. Gladys Aponte, a Puerto Rican who heads a consumer group in Brooklyn's bleak Bedford-Stuyvesant district, told of the results of two days of comparison shopping a fortnight ago. On every one of 20 standard items, she said, prices were higher in Bedford- Stuyvesant than they were in nearby Flatbush, a middle-class area; totaled up, the difference was as much as $1. Making the arithmetic even more onerous is the fact that people in the slums spend...
...novelty, originality and moral power. Dealing as it does with the lower depths of a great city, it is very much in the tradition of Dickens." Since Selby offered a minutely detailed chronicle of unremitting violence, perversion, homosexuality, sadism and sex without directly indicating any objection, the comparison with Dickens, who made his point by contrasting the good and the bad, may have seemed specious to the jury...
...fair number of things done," says Sir Frank, are "small in comparison with the need for space." He admits that "no one nowadays creating the institution afresh would make a library and museum in one building." But he also insists that "books and antiquities illuminate each other" and is determined to reinstate the plans for the new library. Meanwhile, for want of simple shelter, one of the great caches of world civilization stays in semiseclusion...
...unAmerican, on the contrary, I am an admirer of the U.S. since 1947 working in the accounting department of a great American company. But I think the comparison between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. must not be made on the basis of the year 1967, but on the basis of the U.S. about 1870 and the U.S.S.R. 1967. On this basis you will find a striking similarity between the young U.S. and the young U.S.S.R.: in both countries violence (see Western films), slavery, poverty and log cabins. In the young U.S. was capitalism to place the cornerstone of the greatness...
Sinatra himself simply can't carry the picture. His line readings are consistently weak, and if occasionally they seem almost adequate, it is only by comparison with Jill St. John's never-ceasing monotone...