Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholar who commands five foreign languages, Taylor sprinkled his testimony with grace notes such as a quote from Greece's Third Century B.C. historian Polybius ("It is not the purpose of war to annihilate those who provoke it, but to cause them to mend their ways.") and a comparison of Communist expansionism with Islam's "flaming sword" policy...
Puff, Puff. Idaho's Frank Church insisted that South Viet Nam was experiencing an "internal revolution," even though North Vietnamese troops were present, just as the U.S. experienced an internal revolution, even though there were "French revolutionary soldiers at Valley Forge." Rusk found that comparison hard to swallow. "I can't identify for a moment," said he, "the purposes of the Hanoi-inspired revolution of the 1960s with the purposes of the American Revolution in the 1770s...
...from what is found in the King James, and he abandons many of its most hallowed images. Gone from Psalms 23, for example, is the elegiac "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me." A comparison with Ugaritic cognates, Dahood argues, proves that the Hebrew correctly demands a more prosy reading: "Even though I should walk in the midst of total darkness, I shall fear no danger since you are with...
...support a store. Catalogues are also an increasing headache to local department stores because they frequently describe varieties of merchandise better than sales clerks are able to. And for the bargain-minded shopper, they offer a tempting possibility. Gathering her catalogues, reaching for the telephone, she can do her comparison shopping without ever getting up out of a chair...
...Rubens, dating near 1610. It was a popular Biblical subject for Flemish artists. But other representations were pallid compared to Rubens', who, according to Rosenberg, "gets to the heart of it, the drama and significance of the story." Other artists' lions were "only little toys, poodles," by comparison. In keeping with the Renaissance adoration of man, Daniel is more hero than saint...