Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Astronaut Cooper Sir, What a revealing comparison of the attitudes of the American and Russian space explorers: a cosmonaut cries out in space, "I am Eagle ! I am Eagle!" while our astronaut humbly prays, "Father, thank...
...glass of milk with some lipstick near the rim. The fascination of this picture is to watch the changes-not as they came over her, but as they were effected upon her by all the faceless image molders who, in the end, made the Pygmalion of legend seem by comparison a mass of clumsy thumbs. Under close and improving direction, her famous walk developed from something crudely virginal into something profanely sophisticated. Some unknown Corot reduced the red of her lips from a massive smear to a spot in a breathtaking landscape. Her hair, sprayed and sculpted a thousand times...
...British that by comparison with her, even John Bull himself seems the son of a miscegenetic marriage. She is the fresh-air fiend in sensible shoes who parries with her nose and charges with her chin. She likes to scrunch into wicker chairs and sniff sea air. She has average tastes, nonexotic pleasures. Every day at precisely 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.-right in the middle of a movie set, if that's where she happens to be-she has hot milk and buttered biscuits. She needs this sustenance as much as a lush needs booze...
Disappointment in the Federal government arose partly from a comparison with the government's prompt action in the University of Mississippi crisis last fall. Typical of many students' feelings were those of Uchenna C. Nwosu '64, who felt that the Administration had "shown some determination" in the Mississippi case but was not doing so now. The lack of real action now, he felt, made it unclear whether Kennedy's earlier acts had been sincere or merely "political opportunism to win liberal and Negro votes...
...tale invites comparison with those classics of darkened childhood, Richard Hughes's High Wind in Jamaica and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Novelist Gloag has named his adult villain Captain Hook, presumably after J. M. Barrie's piratical menace in Peter Pan. One does not have to believe in fairies, however, to give cold credence to the awful reality of Gloag's matriolatrous, patricidal tribe of tots...