Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WABC-TV. "And because there are so few, the competition among universities to enroll them is, nowadays, intense." More intense than the competition to get good football players? "Much more intense. There are literally thousands of well-qualified football players to divide up among first-rate colleges. In comparison, there are only a handful of qualified Negroes. It is these whom we are really out for. Our great national problem is to increase the pool...
Price incidentally plays the lead in the other piece on the same Theatre Company program, The Dock Brief, by John Mortimer. In comparison with the bite of The Bald Soprano, the whimsy of The Dock Brief is so vapid that it is tolerable only because it begins the evening. Little is news in The Dock Brief except perhaps the performances of the actors, Price and Edward Finnegan, which create imaginary or past worlds off the stage far more interesting than...
Conoisseurs of the comparison score game have found the going more than a little bewildering thus far. For instance, Columbia slaughtered Brown, then Brown nearly caught Dartmouth; is Columbia going to destroy Dartmouth? Not a chance. Or try this sequence: Yale beats Columbia. Harvard tops Cornell, Cornell edges Yale, Harvard ties Columbia. Does that make sense? Not a chance...
...Schwartz's team drew blood samples from 57 members of the leukemia victims' families, and from 52 people who were not known to have leukemia and were not known to have been exposed to it. None of the normal comparison subjects had antibody that could be linked with the suspected leukemia virus. But 19 of the parents, brothers and sisters of leukemia victims did have antibody. More of them may have had it, Dr. Schwartz believes, in tiny, undetectable amounts...
Most of the poetry suffers from comparison with the prose, largely because it is so much less coherent. Sidney Goldfarb writes vividly and sometimes powerfully, as in "This You Told Me." But with most of the poems one is not always certain, after reading, just what they were about. Robert Dawson's "The Troll at the Toll," whether or not one understands it (I don't), is great...