Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From time to time, some richly imaginative columnist likens Club Singer Enzo Stuarti to the late Mario Lanza. But the comparison is fair to neither man. Lanza had a voice of genuine operatic dimensions, and he misused it sadly. Stuarti has a voice of cocktails-and-dancing dimensions, and he makes the most...
...better U.S. dispensers of this feminine mot justice is Elizabeth Hardwick, the wife of Poet Robert Lowell. Judging by this first collection of her essays and book reviews-most of them fugitives from oblivion in Partisan Review-she is also an artist in aphorism who deserves, at her best, comparison with Mary McCarthy or Virginia Woolf...
...third criterion will serve to provide a true comparison between wage levels in Japan and other areas of the world. Figures are often seen which give average wages in different countries in terms of U.S. dollars. According to these statistics the average Japanese laborer receives a paycheck one-eighth the amount of that given to an American and one-third the amount given to a British worker. But this comparison is unfair. The real truth lies in the sum of goods and services the Japanese laborer can acquire with his wages, in terms of real returns, compensation in Japanese export...
...other. Kids who went into tantrums had to be held while their pants were rolled down and they got a needle in each buttock. The one child in five who gave a blood sample will be bled again in about a month, for comparison of before-and-after antibody levels. All parents got a form on which to report whether their children develop a fever or rash...
Like the fast-moving Journal, Nikkei gives most of its editorial space (75%) to business and economic affairs. It also provides its readers a well-edited daily dose of general news. But there the comparison ends...