Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outer space with a thoughtful look at the seedy old earth of 1951. Like The Thing (TIME, May 14), it is the story of a visitor from another planet. But Klaatu (Michael Rennie) is no villainous monster; he is an ultra-civilized human being who makes the earthmen, by contrast, look like a monstrous race of Yahoos...
...beautiful and exciting picture, then. But I cannot rid myself of a feeling that it is not a great picture by several Ganges-breadths. Why it misses greatness is difficult to say, but perhaps it lies in this: the force, the beauty of the novel lies in the deep contrast between the calm flow of Indian life outside and the turbulent rapids inside the adolescent girl. Without this contrast the background is superfluous, even distracting, and the girl's problems are deprived of a setting which gives them power. Renoir certainly does not miss this contrast...
...Force department, which is offering a Flight Operations course for the first time this year, has attracted 440 students to its courses in contrast to 210 last year. Two hundred and thirty-five of these are freshmen, almost three times as many as entered the program last fall...
Intense and indefatigable though he was, De Lattre seemed, to U.S. friends who knew him in the past, a subdued man in contrast to World War II days, when he used to play host at lavish parties and declaim his own poetry at the dinner table. The death of his son has hit him very hard. Sometimes a sudden memory will wring from him an uncontrollable sob. He is, like MacArthur, essentially an old-fashioned man who believes unbendingly in the old-fashioned virtues-but also in the new-fashioned ways of waging war. "The only thing," says De Lattre...
...contrast, the Russians sounded strangely halfhearted and ineffective. The old record of exaggerated charges, threats and denunciations impressed nobody, whether it was played off in Russian, Polish or English. Against the West's new and surprising unity, the Communists had lost the power to paralyze, terrorize and delay. Not even the frank threat from the Peking Radio that the fate of the Kaesong armistice talks might hang on events at San Francisco could crack the unanimity of the non-Communist world. Up stood Asians, Buddhists and Moslems alike. Up stood small nations, which had trembled before at the first...