Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admirals and with the American press. Second, at the time, Roosevelt could be excused for believing that France had ceased to exist. Kennedy, in the face of a France which very much exists, has gone much further in his tactics than Roosevelt ever did. To find a really suitable comparison it is necessary to go back to pre-Good Neighbor policy in Latin America. Indeed, Kennedy seems to have learned his manners from Teddy Roosevelt...
...experimental group were due to the drug and not to psychological factors such as suggestibility, expectation, and so forth." To this the questionnaire study by Metzner et al. responds: "The present study does not employ a placebo control group since the focus of interest was not the comparison of psilocybin experiences with the effects of suggestion. Rather, the purpose of the research was to examine the effects of a set, setting and back-ground variables on the nature of the psilocybin experiences by correlation of pre-drug with post-drug questionnaire responses...
...workers, the wheat stacks and cogwheels of federal wall paintings, have turned into top-rank abstract expressionists. Next week Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art opens a show by one of them: 64 oils, gouaches and watercolors by James Brooks that make his old murals look, by comparison, like pages from the "F.D.R. Coloring Book...
...ideology are still off limits. Another novelist, Victor Nekrasov, was recently reprimanded by Izvestia (TIME, Feb. 1) for his comments on traveling in the U.S. He made the mistake, scolded Izvestia, of "painting a fifty-fifty picture of American life," and even "applying his fifty-fifty rule to a comparison of America and Russia...
...trying to give a balanced picture-''black and white sides of American life on a fifty-fifty basis." This, ruled Izvestia, was nothing short of "bourgeois objectivism." More than that, concluded Izvestia, Nekrasov by implication "applied his fifty-fifty rule to matters far more serious-a comparison of two worlds, two ideologies. And when we get a slogan justifying peaceful coexistence on the subject of ideology, fifty-fifty is a dangerous thing...