Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the U.S. woke up after the election with a ticket-splitting headache, many politicians and most pundits agreed with the hasty diagnosis of Fair-Dealing Columnist Thomas Stokes: "The personal victory of President Eisenhower dramatizes, by contrast, the increasing weakness of his party." This was a glib, convenient way of talking about Democratic congressional victories against the Eisenhower avalanche. But it was also a superficial and misleading explanation of an election that carried a deeper and vastly more significant meaning...
History Fenced In. Such gaily innocent concerns appear in grim contrast to the Russian backdrop. There are pitiable and grotesque vignettes of life in the home of the revolution-a man brutally beaten beside a cathedral and left helpless and ignored in the snow, female bouncers in a beer cellar, rapacious black-marketeers...
Deadly Shadow Boxing. By contrast, says Marshall, the speedy U.S. rotation policy and a go-slow attitude back home left the Eighth Army barely enough men to man its single trench line. "Its people were at least 50% deficient in fighting experience . . . The Eighth Army was a mobile army, but for lack of manpower, it was compelled to use the implements of mobility simply to sit and survive . . . The fighting which resulted seemed like a deadly form of shadow boxing." Marshall gives a harrowing example: eight 7th Division newcomers went out on patrol one warm night, expecting "no sweat...
...contrast to her Harvard counterpart, the Radcliffe girl cannot wander out of her dorm when she feels like it. To stay out of the dorm later than 10 p.m., when the doors lock, the Cliffe-dweller must register in the sign-book for all to see. Unlike some women's colleges, at Radcliffe a girl does not have to sign the name of her date, but only her destination, with as little specificity as "Boston movies," "Square," or "Corner...
...Contrast the picture of courageous Bishop Ordass shown in your Oct. 22 Religion section with the pictures of Christ. I'll wager the true Christ looked more like Bishop Ordass and the Middle Ages' conception of Christ than the silly, grinning, effeminate, puffy-cheeked companion by Painter Ivan Pusecker...