Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Nixon's concept of an open presidency is in diametric contrast with Lyndon Johnson's vest-pocket conduct of the office, it does not exactly reflect his own performance as a candidate...
...suffering with naive good humor, and all for nothing. For Russian readers this agony is redoubled. Russians have always loved innocents in literature, and the carpenter Ivan is a peasant innocent in direct descent from Tolstoy's Platon Karataev in War and Peace. His meekness is in jarring contrast to the degradation of the camp?where an extra bowl of mush makes a day "almost happy," and where your most important possessions are your felt boots, a spoon you made from aluminum wire, a needle and thread hidden in your...
...Which, in contrast to monkey kidneys or other animal tissue used as culture mediums, are readily available, relatively sterile and contain the nutrients needed for virus growth...
...previous year's 9.5% but still ahead of the 500 U.S. companies, whose sales increase as a group was 7.9%. The profit picture was even more startling. Earnings of the 200 went up by 6.7%, compared with 1966's paltry 0.7% increase over 1965 and in sharp contrast with a 3.1% decrease in earnings...
...long preoccupied with the dusty corners of the modern soul, proves a deft performer. His literary colleague Kurt Vonnegut recently toyed with industrialized suicide (Welcome to the Monkey House), but only as an example of the dehumanized modern world efficiently eliminating Malthusian excess. Stern's Suicide Academy, by contrast, has a more promising metaphoric reach...