Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee turned to its last four witnesses, minor performers by contrast to those who had gone before them, but each with some sharp bits to contribute...
Although this attitude marked a sharp contrast with that of the American (Northern) Baptist Convention, which last fortnight edged a bit closer to union with the Disciples of Christ (TIME, June 25), the Southern brethren hastened to catch up with the Northerners in one department: "Whereas the Northern Baptist Convention has changed its name so that it is continental in scope [we recommend that] Southern Baptist boards and agencies be free to serve as a source of blessing-to any community or any people anywhere in the United States...
...have been complaining that TV is ruining the gate at prizefights, had something to cheer about. The Joe Louis-Lee Savold fight (see SPORT), put on without commercial radio or TV, drew to Madison Square Garden a crowd of more than 18,000 fans, a gate of $94,684. Contrast: last month's televised heavyweight championship bout between Ezzard Charles and Joey Maxim in Chicago drew only...
...Sullivan is a strange contrast to the bumptious know-it-all of Sullivan's Broadway column in New York's Daily News. His TV expression-or lack of expression-is a cross between that of Joe Louis and a cigar-store Indian. When he walks out to introduce an act he looks as though someone had wound him up with a key-located somewhere under the coat hanger that seems to have been built into the broad shoulders of his double-breasted jacket. But televiewers apparently approve his wooden personality. Sullivan's hourlong, celebrity-studded variety show...
...years isolated from all female companionship, but the arrival of a French princess and her female entourage challenges and soon ridicules the pledge. Upon this comedy of incident is built the larger and more important comedy of words; poetic dialogue is the main mirth of the play. In provocative contrast, the concluding prose lines suggest both tragedy and the Shakespaere of tragic fruition. "The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo," says philosophic Armado after the women have been called home. "You, that way; we, this...