Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout her diary Betsy, in good 18th century style, called her husband by his surname. By contrast, Eugenia was a igth century romantic. The great love of her life, with an impecunious Scot, was troubled and tempestuous. "He could not bear to see me less rich than I ought to be," she wailed in her diary. "But if he has any feeling could he prefer to see me waste my life in wretchedness-?" Quarrels, tears, reconciliations followed. "How different is the Love of a Woman to that of a Man!" wrote Eugenia. Betsy looked on sympathetically, Fremantle less...
...they had, they might have restrained themselves. For, while reasonable men must grant the dicerence between slipping quietly into six yards of quicksand and slipping noisily into two feet of Cambridge slush, the contrast is only one of degree. The result is disturbing in either case...
Though one of the things audiences liked about these plays was their refreshing contrast to the orthodox theater, Wilder makes no claims to originality. "My writing life," says he, "is a series of infatuations for admired writers," and he freely acknowledges his debt. He is not a "maker of new modes," but a "renewer of old treasure." Nor does he make any pretense to profundity. All important truths, he insists, lie slumbering inside everyone. A novel or a play is merely the key that springs the lock: "Literature is the orchestration of platitudes." But Orchestrator Wilder was concerned with more...
...sheen of perfection marks the Budapest performances: virtually every note is impeccable, and the teamwork is so good that the four instruments sound almost like one. More tonal contrast marks the Pascal playing: individual instruments sometimes sing out with a fervor that comes close to the composer's own spirit...
...West Germany, by contrast, the rates were only 27 per 100,000 for men and 12 for women. Some other countries with high rates: Austria, 34 men and 15 women; Denmark, 32 and 15; Switzerland, 35 and 13. Japan had a rate of only 24 per 100,000 for men and 15 for women while the U.S. rates (for 1949) were 33 and 10. Countries with a strong Roman Catholic tradition have some of the lowest rates, e.g., 8 and 3 in Spain, 4 and 1 in Ireland. Other findings: ¶Most of the 32 governments reporting found that suicides...