Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judgment is speculative, but my own guess is that Ivory Coast volunteers have no monopoly on clock watching and that they rate perfectly well in comparison with other volunteers in Africa...
...foot, and lose touch with people in the process. Hurtling to one crime call after another, police sometimes seem to view Negroes and Mexicans (24% of the populace) through the eyes of an occupation army. Only 4% of the force are Negroes, compared with 13.5% of the population. By comparison, of New York City's regular, transit and housing police, 9% are Negroes, v. 15% of the population. The minorities seem sometimes in the grip of an anti-cop mystique that turns every attempt to enforce the law into an outrageous act of persecution...
...kind of strong anti-war action was neatly avoided by the rank-in-class proposal. The Shenton-Hovde proposal was decidedly not an explicit attack on the war in Vietnam, and it did not, as did Harvard's faculty debates, directly confront 2-S. One can deduce from a comparison of the two debates that a university faculty can more easily justify taking a stand on rank-in-class than on 2-S or the war. Withholding rank-in-class seems within the rightful realm of faculty consideration because, as Shenton told the Spectator, it is an attempt to "restore...
...nine out of ten cases by Alfred Hitchcock. But if the writers and directors of spy movies feel free to borrow from The Lady Vanishes, Notorious, The Man Who Knew Too Much, North by Northwest, and on down the line, they have almost universally suffered by the comparison thus brought upon themselves...
Radcliffe, by comparison, surveys its graduated seniors the following fall and each December comes out with a dozen or so mimeographed, hand-stapled pages on which are printed the names of every girl, alphabetically by field of concentration, along with a succinct indication of how she is occupying herself...