Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon, there were new suicides by fire, the first since the coup-and virtually ignored in comparison to the relentlessly publicized Buddhist suicides under Diem. A 17-year-old girl, Bach Tri Nga, drenched herself with gasoline and touched a match to her skirts before the local residences of the International Control Commission, set up in 1954 to oversee Viet Nam's partition. A 22-year-old unemployed pedicab driver cremated himself half a block from the U.S. Ambassador's residence, and a young telephone operator followed suit (he left a note saying he had been rejected...
...problems is Archibald Cox, Solicitor-General. He is responsible for arguing all cases appearing before the Supreme Court in which the federal government is involved. Yet despite the fact that Cox has kept up with the law, he says that Cambridge and Washington don't even lend themselves to comparison. Although the job of Solicitor-General is a busy one, so, says Cox, is that of a Law School professor. "But my wife says it's busier here...
...Arts and Sciences who serve as part-time teachers in Harvard College. Teaching fellows serve in many capacities, as tutors, laboratory and course assistants, and section men. For the year 1962-63, there are 715 teaching fellows (616 men and 99 women) appointed in the various fields. By comparison there are 569 voting members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (professors, associate professors, assistant professors, lecturers, and the major officers of Administration...
Open to All Mankind. With no space cases to set precedents, legal theorists are scratching hard for down-to-earth parallels to these no longer far-out problems. The most compelling comparison is to the law of the high seas-as a pair of massive new books on space law make clear. In both Space Law and Government, by Andrew G. Haley (Appleton-Century-Crofts, $15), and Law and Public Order in Space, by Myres S. McDougal, Harold Lasswell and Ivan A. Vlasic (Yale, $15), maritime law, which has grown out of the common consent and reciprocal needs of seafaring...
Home, James. Though both would no doubt be shocked at the comparison, O'Hara's best later stories offer a world of manners and mores that in its self-contained coherence suggests the world of Henry James. O'Hara has an idiomatic acquaintance with far more people on far more different levels of society than James ever did-chauffeurs, part-time ladies' maids, broken-down movie directors, cops, smalltown bankers, and so on. But like James, he is a snob and a firm believer that a man's life can best be mirrored in social...