Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to later-day Mayan works, writes Mexican Painter-Archaeologist Miguel Covarrubías, Mezcala objects are "highly stylized and schematic, and their coarse, vigorous character makes them readily identifiable" (see cut). Probably sculpted between 200 B.C.-800 A.D., surviving examples of Mezcala workmanship are small (many only 2-in. to 7-in. tall) and were made from the same hard stone used for chisels. But primitive as are the small masks, figures and votive animals, they pass the test of good sculpture. Even magnified in size, they keep their proportion and acquire a monumental gravity...
...contrast to the basically healthy situation in Japan, however, he found Korea and Formosa in a state of virtual stagnation...
...contrast to Japan, however, Reischauer found Korea and Formosa to be marking time rather than pushing forward. Emergency policies have been necessary up to now, and the situation seems to be stabilizing. The two regions will probably remain independent for the forseeable future, he predicts, which means the U.S. will have to continue employing a defensive-crisis type policy. But this situation adds to the feeling of stagnation in these areas...
...grace, talking pure Sinatrese. Samples: "I'm very large down in Australia." Pointing to the fancy trappings: "The furniture's finished in teak, you might say," or to a huge Japanese mural painted across an entire wall: "It's a Japanese print, you might say." By contrast, Boston Barrister Joseph Welch, chatting graciously with Murrow from his eleven-room, 150-year-old Walpole, Mass, home, was funny and brimming with sweet charity. Said he: "If I go on having any more fun than I've had, I will have cheated fate itself...
...contrast to his cool reception from the Legion, Adlai enjoyed a seven-minute, banner-waving, snake-dancing demonstration through the aisles by 1,500 delegates when he appeared at the International Association of Machinists' convention in San Francisco. Said he: "I've concluded after this demonstration to accept your nomination." In San Francisco Stevenson experienced another pleasure: ending 22 months' Army service, son Borden, 24, rejoined his father and brothers, Adlai III, 25, and John Fell, 20. Reunited after a 15-month separation, the Stevenson family went to the I.A.M. convention and flew home to Chicago together...