Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cast Off & Clutch. It was all such a tough act to follow that the third game in St. Louis had to suffer by comparison-except that most of the agony was in the Red Sox dugout. Four pitchers gave the Cards ten hits and five runs, and once again, Lou Brock was the messenger of doom. He scored his third and fourth runs of the series, the last on a line single by Roger Maris, that Yankee cast-off who now hustles like a rookie for the Cards, with three hits and three RBIs in the first three games...
...this case, the revolutionary is a young university student, known in the book only as A., who out of dislike for his bourgeois parents drifts from membership in a mild radical party to participation in an assassination plot with bomb-throwing anarchists. Any work on this subject inevitably demands comparison with some 20th century masterpieces, including Malraux's Man's Fate and Camus' long essay The Rebel. In that company, Koningsberger is hopelessly out of place; what is more, his character is also out of date. A.'s home is an imaginary European country, not Africa...
...hairdressers for his swinging singularity (which he earnestly aspires to), and pursued by indefatigably seductive girls. Once a docile follower of the style of his elders, the new bachelor finds himself the mold of fashion, with his mating plumage studied and envied by beaten-down husbands who, in comparison, begin to feel as tired and scruffy as a suburban lawn in a dry summer. The late John F. Kennedy, himself a swinging bachelor until 36, neatly framed both the stimulating and debilitating aspects of bachelorhood in a wry note that he wrote to Paul Fay in 1953: "I gave everything...
...Ministrable. Dzu's very energy made Suu and Huong seem old and tired in comparison. His catcalling at the vested authorities, Ky and Thieu, undoubtedly struck a gleeful chord in a country where, as Henry Cabot Lodge observed in Newsday, "a Vietnamese proverb says that five evils afflict mankind: fire, flood, famine, armed robbery and central government...
...Prutting concedes that diagnosis is improving. But he insists that even ultramodern technical aids do not make it infallible, so the findings should always be checked. To rouse physicians, Dr. Prutting urges hospital pathologists to educate their colleagues at weekly "organ recitals" for comparison of diagnoses and autopsy findings. This still might not increase the number of autopsies substantially, for in most states, if death occurs in a hospital or is not "suspicious," an autopsy is illegal without consent of the next of kin. Dr. Prutting suggests that "archaic state laws" should be revised so that consent is not required...