Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British and Americans go around-carrying no guns, since the very first day-in shirt sleeves, clean, handsome, kind, they looked to us like angels on earth. The Americans especially have been very much liked in Italy for their cordiality and spontaneity. Their childishness and innocence, in contrast to the false brilliancy and self-styled cleverness of so many of my countrymen, was delightful to me. Pity that they drink too much...
...were tyrants, but at least they had a plan for peace that would work-namely, world government imposed by force. The Russian Communists are also tyrants, but they too have a peace plan that is practical-namely, incorporation of every country into a soviet system ruled from Moscow. By contrast the American platform endorses the same old world anarchy, thinly diluted by a new League of Nations...
...Plan. By contrast, OPAdministrator Chester Bowles's whacking of N.A.M. for its drive to end price controls by Feb. 15 seemed almost a caress. The U.S., said Bowles, had saved $66 billion by not modifying the Price Control Act, as N.A.M. had suggested 18 months ago. N.A.M.'s demand that controls be lifted now, when inflation pressure is at its greatest, "is a risky, reckless, gambling policy which in all likelihood would produce a national disaster...
...three weeks of November will be China's weeks of decision. Crack Government armies, mostly U.S.-equipped and U.S.-trained, will have arrived in North China. This week Peiping, Tientsin, and Shantung Province were seeing their first "regulars" in eight years. A wave of optimism, in refreshing contrast with the cynicism of the Western World, has been flooding over China, like the Yellow River at crest. But like that mighty, fertilizing stream, it can make for prosperity or sorrow...
Thus far, there has been one brilliant program: the contrast of the great intellectual classicist, Bach, and the great intellectual romantic, Berlioz. But, on another night, the audience was subjected to a double dose of Sibelfus, with a new Martina symphony thrown in; last Saturday the orchestra would up its program with Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov, and broadcast...