Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pure, that his scenes are very moving even though we often have to strain to hear. His song in the schoolroom is a weird blending of dewy innocence and dark corruption. Carolyn Stouffer, Mrs. Grose the housekeeper, tends to be shrill, and her diction is sometimes muddy, in contrast to the rest of the cast. Carlotte Wilsen, as the ghostly Miss Jessel can be both terrifying, when she calls to Flora, and tragic, in her beautiful schoolroom song...
...says that the onion derives from the tulip, and the pessimist says that the tulip derives from the onion. It seems that in the case of Viet Nam the pessimist has often come close to being right, but has always been proved wrong in the end. The optimist, by contrast, has never proved himself right-but has yet to be proved wrong...
...makes a practice of challenging dumfounded clerks to explain which products are the best buys. Denounced at first by the food industry-which has since heeded many of her suggestions-Mrs. Peterson received angry letters addressed to "Mrs. Snoopy." In defense of her mission, she points-out that in contrast to yesteryear's corner grocery, the modern supermarket stocks an average 8,000 items, contends that the citizen's "ability to judge must be aided." She has won high praise from President Johnson, who declared that "through her dedication a new day has dawned for the American consumer...
...debate over Escobedo. In striking contrast to Britain, the U.S. has enshrined the privilege against self-incrimination in its written Constitution for 175 years-but has yet to make police live...
Court v. Court. Across the country, many lower courts echoed the dissenters' fears by ruling that Escobedo voids a confession only if, as in Danny Escobedo's case, the suspect had retained a lawyer and was not allowed to consult him. By contrast, the California Supreme Court went beyond Escobedo and ruled last year that a constitutional right to counsel exists even if a suspect does not ask to exercise it. In California, police failure to warn a suspect of his rights to silence and to counsel now voids his confession even though he makes no request...