Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon has won the overwhelming support of the nation's press. By the end of last week, 483 daily papers with a total circulation of 20.7 million had come out for him editorially; this week, LIFE endorses him. Humphrey, by contrast, has been endorsed by 93 newspapers with a circulation of 3.9 million...
...serious candidate has mounted in modern American history. In many cities, it is impossible to find his campaign headquarters. In others, like Louisville, there are as many as three, each competing for funds and attention. Not one member of his staff has had previous experience in national politics. By contrast, Eugene McCarthy's "children's crusade" was a model of efficiency and professionalism...
Nixon, by contrast, found cause for cheer in the polls. A Harris sampling asking which candidate would inspire the most confidence as President gave Nixon 40%, Humphrey 28%, Wallace 14%. Surveys by the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor showed Nixon the easy winner, with Wallace second and Humphrey third in probable electoral votes. When he heard the tally of the latest Gallup poll (Nixon 44%, Humphrey 29%, Wallace 20%), the Republican candidate bounded to the back of his campaign plane for an ebullient chat with reporters, felt so uncharacteristically talkative that he returned twice more during...
Gorey: Nixon, by contrast, is almost excessively organized, even in his mannerisms. If he is asked a question he has answered 100 times before, he gives an agonized expression, as if anguished about how to answer...
Moravia is not a Communist but considers himself a Marxist humanist. For this reason, he found in Chinese poverty a refreshing contrast to what he considers the economic excesses of the West. In a sentence reminiscent of Man as an End, his collection of essays published between 1941 and 1963, he writes: "Poverty and chastity are the two normal conditions of man, or at least they ought to be in the world today." In China's destitution and Mao's efforts to eradicate the past, Moravia finds the possibility of rejuvenation. For, once the past has been destroyed...