Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experimental plays in which the plain style and plain fables of his poctic maturity were worked into music and motion. In the best of these stylized dramas, he achieved a formal perfection and a dramatic force that make plays constructed only of words seem wooden and drab by comparison...
...presidency, Frondizi cast off all pre-election commitments to adopt economic determinism, heart and soul. "I have always dreamed of building a modern, well-developed nation of my country," he said. "No consideration of personal welfare or convenience-no family, political party or friend can stop me." Austere by Comparison. The post-Per&243;n economic problems were immense...
Frondizi's prescription of austerity 'was austere only by comparison with Per&243;nista days. Subsidies were lifted from food, the peso was freed to seek a realistic level, wage increases were tied to productivity...
Hard Line. Worthington's line on inadequate profits is harder to buy. His comparison of recession-hit 1960 with the boom Korean war year of 1950 seriously distorts the profits picture. In fact, corporate profits averaged only 6.4% of the G.N.P. between 1945 and 1949 and since the end of the Korean War they have been averaging just under 5%. Moreover, industry's allotments for capital outlay are determined not just by profit margins but also by consumer spending patterns and by the amount of existing manufacturing capacity (most industries currently have more than they can use). Though...
...early-seventeenth-century world of religious nightmare, alchemical daydream, and academic short-circuit, in which an inherited logic grinned at itself and morbidity became bumptious. In one of the 1954 poems, "A Mirror for Poets," Mr. Gunn described that age, so obviously like our own as to make the comparison banal, as a "violent time" which demanded its right to be taken seriously by whispering to the writer, "For feel my fingers in your pia mater. I am a cruelly insistent friend:/ You cannot smile at me and make an end." But when the explosion of tradition and the routini...