Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still bustled, its hundreds of bars thronged with noisy knots of people guffawing over the latest rumors, its streets snarled with ill-tempered, horn-honking traffic jams. Today there are hardly any rumors, and the streets are so empty that even impoverished La Paz, Bolivia, teems with traffic by comparison. The armed militiamen and -women once standing guard in truculent excitement before virtually every public building have disappeared. Life has become predictable, its Latin impulse governed by ration books, arbitrary government edicts and complex forms to be filled out in quadruplicate...
...extremes. He has orbited the earth three times as an astronaut, and last week he returned from living a record 30 days beneath the sea as an aquanaut. After surfacing from the Navy's Sealab II off the coast of Southern California, the versatile Carpenter made the inevitable comparison. "The sea" he said, "is a more hostile environment than space." He could also proudly report that the men of Sealab II stood up surprisingly well under the unusual stresses of the deep; they proved that man can live and work in safety as he seeks...
Present plans allow a tutor to choose either the experimental plan or the traditional course, which devotes one term to American government and one to international relations. In his memo, Kramnick expressed the hope that comparison of these two approaches will lead to a consensus on the future of sophomore tutorial...
...problem may be, paradoxically, that Paul fails, as John did, to understand fully the theological thinking that underlies the council's spirit of renewal. Paul's favorite Catholic thinkers are Mantain and Etienne Gilson, who are radical enough by the standards of Italian textbook theology but outdated in comparison with the present-day work of Schillebeeckx. Yves Congar Karl Rahner and Hans Kiing...
Mansfield's aim was "to lay down on our side as cohesive a statement of our aims as Hanoi did of its own" after the President's offer of "unconditional discussions" last April. By comparison with Mansfield's elaboration, Hanoi's terms were cohesive indeed. The Communists' principal, and unacceptable, condition is simply that "the internal affairs of the South Vietnamese people must be settled by the South Vietnamese people themselves in accordance with the program of the National Liberation Front-the Viet Cong's political arm. In other words, as Hanoi sees...