Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp contrast stands the notorious Neighborhood Four. Here the social problems are acute. Many families have lost the father, sometimes accidentally, sometimes through incarceration, sometimes because he just plain ran away. The neighborhood claims 25% of the City's mother's aid cases and 22% of the City's relief cases...
...contrast, Russia's aim ever since the days of the Czars has been to dominate the Middle East, and today the Bolsheviks are following the pattern for reasons of "power politics" as part of their "announced purpose of communizing the world...
...contrast, The Conquistadors, by French Scholar Jean Descola, lacks the firsthand touch of that truly wonderful story; it is a brilliant work of historical synthesis, written with an eloquence that is Spanish and an aphoristic bite that is French. For part of the way the two books travel together, since both chronicle the Cortés conquest. The 16th century soldier and the 20th century scholar tell much the same story-the fantastic saga of Hernán Cortés, a vagabond student from Salamanca who became one of the most famous conquerors in history...
This easy familiarity with people stands in sharp contrast to the strain of intellectual austerity that moves his political behavior. His ability to inspire affection and confidence among his worker following--whose unions today give him his strongest support--dates from his student days at Oxford where he first became interested in Socialism. Gaitskell joined the strikers while most of his classmates reacted to the great Strike of 1926 by volunteering to serve as transport workers and special constables. Later, during the Depression, he gave adult education courses to Nottinghampshire miners for the Worker's Education Association...
...contrast, one suspects young Americans burden themselves with unnecessary responsibilities. A comparable and excellent Hollywood movie, Rebel Without a Cause, showed the grief of American youth by explaining how well-meaning but misinformed parents led their progeny to dangerous irresponsibility. Jimmy Dean and Natalie Wood wanted to have good motives and fine ambitions, but their unhappy homes forced them to seek perverted thrills outside the home...