Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean Hanford rejects the proposal to restrict tutorial instruction to men of Dean's List standing, pointing out that one of the chief values of the tutorial method is its capacity for stimulating a spark of intellectual curiosity in minds which the course system would never have aroused. The contrast in emphasis with President Conant's report is striking. The President would lavish money and attention on the few brilliant minds in each class. Dean Hanford declares: "There are always a number of able and ambitious students who will do work of honor quality without the need of stimulation...
...over his election. His plan is the EPIC plan--End Poverty in California. His instruments will be the CAL, the CAP, and the CAM--California Authority for Land, for Production, and for Money. The symbol of EPIC will be the Golden Bee (in contrast to the predatory Blue Eagle of the NRA) and its motto, "I Produce, I Defend." No doubt such things have a magic all their own, but it seems just a bit optimistic to expect them to make Sinclair the next governor of California. Opposition from the Dark Powers is of course foreseen by the prophet...
...attempt to work out the EPIC plan would be a refreshing variation in the mad scramble for booty that goes under the name of politics in California. The sincere, if unsophisticated, idealism of this man who has never worn a dress suit would loom in joyous contrast to the urbanity and nonentity of "Sunny Jim" Rolph...
...past four years Marion Talley has lived a life of mystery, in sharp contrast to her early days at the Metropolitan when every Talley doing was stretched into a human interest story. When she retired she announced that she was going to farm and farm she did. She bought 1,600 wheat acres in Colby, Kans., made them pay until last summer when the crops were blown out of the ground. The 3,000 bushels left she was shrewd enough to save for seed, got $1 per bushel...
...ironies of Paine's life, the most bitter was his persecution for godlessness on the basis of "The Age of Reason," which is obviously the work of a very religious man, and was really called forth as a sane alternative to rationalism. Mr. Calverton has strongly marked the political contrast between Franklin and Paine; the smugness of Franklin's "Where liberty is, there is my country" sounds fat and disagreeable after Tom's "Where liberty is not, there is mine...