Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhausting three-month-long visit to Australia and New Zealand. Britain's globe-girdling Queen Elizabeth last week stopped to pay a brief call on one of her quietest realms: Cocos Islands, a tiny atoll lying 800 miles south of Singapore in the Indian Ocean. In happy contrast to the wildly cheering crowds that greeted her elsewhere, Elizabeth's Cocosian subjects, gathered 560 strong on Home Island, stood in dignified silence as she stepped ashore with her husband. Clad, men and women alike, in sarongs and transparent ceremonial jackets, they waved little Union Jacks and smiled shyly until...
...contrast, the museum put up in its outdoor sculpture garden a collection of signs and markers that answered both objections. One was a clean-cut, red-and-black London bus-stop marker that is functionally efficient and esthetically pleasing. So is an eye-catching, striped pointer showing the way to the Northland shopping center in Detroit. Among other examples of good sign design: the simply lettered yellow-and-red Shell Oil Co. emblem and the handsome, red-and-gold store-front label of F. W. Woolworth, which has been in use since 1885. The Woolworth sign...
...faction" as Al Capp referred to them. As to the waiters "ruffling up" anybody, while they may have been slightly overzealous in performing their duty, they, in the main, did an admirable job. I feel that continuing the Smoker is advisable although possibly minor alterations could be made. In contrast to the editor, I feel that it does perform its function. Jan Basch...
...should stay in that position, for it is one of the funniest pieces to be seen around here in a long time. With deftly worded satiric verse, Denney takes pseudo-intellectualism, in the form of an art-struck girl and her ineffectual beau, and ridicules them by contrast with a gauche, loud sister and her equally flamboyant lover...
...matched Mr. Gelley's. Melville Smith's brilliant harpsichord playing transcended the role of mere continue and turned the keyboard into an integral part of the ensemble. Midway in the evening, he delighted the audience with an interlude of harpsichord pieces by Byrd, Bull, and L. Couperin. They provided contrast to the suave tone of the woodwinds and added a touch of brighter color that perfectly balanced the program. ROBERT M. SIMON