Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strings "a core of cast iron overlaid with silver." Later, a three-night stand at Carnegie Hall was sold out-largely because Russia's great father and son violinists, David and Igor Oistrakh, appeared on the program. But Barshai's group did not suffer in comparison...
...dispatched a recorded diatribe to an anti-apartheid rally in London, whose participants protested the law under which South African citizens may be jailed for interminably repeated 90-day stretches. The very next day Nkrumah armed himself with a measure that makes the South African statute look pale by comparison...
Bypassing for a moment the observation that Pearl Primus, a big-bodied, strong, supple woman, is a perfectly lovely dancer, I must also note that her performance last night was just the slightest bit disappointing. Her demonstration class at Radcliffe yesterday afternoon, by comparison, was continuously compelling and satisfying; she seemed more at case, more smiling, more dignified, as she began to explain African dancing. Perhaps an audience of dancers is inherently more open to inspiration; and, of course, it is more thrilling to see a class of perhaps 75 dancers attempt a warrior-dance or a festal dance than...
Undoubtedly the most widely read review is Daniel J. Boorstin's comparison of Age of the Scholar with Clark Kerr's The Uses of the University in "Book Week." Boorstin contrasts Kerr's "courage and intellectual clarity" with Pusey's "genteel, vague, sanctimonious, and insular mind...
...Harvard has a sex scandal on its hands, the reason is not that the University permits girls to visit men's rooms for shockingly long periods of time. In comparison to the visiting rules of most other Ivy League schools and at least two other colleges in the Boston area, Harvard's parietal hours seem conservative...