Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Especially impressive is the theatre designed by Victor Louis for Bordeaux in the 1770's. At the time this was the largest, most beautiful and most complex theatre anywhere in France. For purposes of comparison, there are juxtaposed the floor plans of the fourteen most famous theatres elsewhere throughout Europe...
...cafe where Boubouroche learns of Adele's infidelity to her apartment where he witnesses it. In reality there is only one act's worth of material. And even then, when compared to more substantial one-acters of the repertory--of Feydeau, for example--this comedy tends to fade by comparison, despite it qualities, and become rather a dramatized anecdote. Indeed, Courteline hardly intended it to be much more. Information in the program notes notwithstanding. Boubouroche owes its existence to more than the author's general mistrust of women, being in point of fact the dramatization of a true incident...
...farce of his own. Added significance lies in the fact that Moliere was at the time having marital troubles of his own with his young adulterous wife Armande, which may account in part for the bitter tone of the play (though the title role itself is only sympathetic by comparison...
After conducting the traditional morning ceremonies and awarding the first 11 honoraries, Conant finally reached General Marshall, "an American to whom freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of this nation...
...boys, skipped rope with schoolgirls. Attendance at the three Sunday services he conducts now is seldom less than 400. The number of children enrolled in the church school has risen from 20 to 200-kids who in their scrubbed smiles and neat clothes would not have to shrink from comparison with the St. John's Sunday-school children of 50 years...