Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such is early mathematics, Communist style. By contrast, the South Vietnamese government takes the conventional approach. Sample problem from a government textbook for children of a comparable age: "Mother came back from the market. She gave Hai two oranges, gave Ba three and saved five for Daddy. How many oranges did she have...
...Composer Per Norgard worthy of John Cage. Seated together with Sweden's octogenarian King Gustaf VI Adolf, was another secular guest, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda. The prayer was read by Tanzanian Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Josiah Kibira, resplendent in a stole whose tribal designs stood in dramatic contrast with its white silk background. The program for the 16-day conference included everything from Bible study to some readings from Bertolt Brecht's play St. Joan of the Stockyards...
...strategy. Inspecting the craft at Lockheed's Marietta, Ga., plant back in March, President Johnson noted that 88 ordinary cargo planes would be necessary to move an infantry brigade from Hawaii to Viet Nam-and the brigade's heaviest equipment would have to go by ship. By contrast, just 20 C-5s could handle the whole operation. The plane, said the President, ushers in a "new era in America's power...
...reason that Trudeau won so decisively was that he matched both the times and the country's mood. A fresh face in a gallery of stale political portraits, he made no promises at all, offered no pat answers and spoke with a candor that was in refreshing contrast to the pompous rhetoric of the past. He seemed a man neither of the left nor of the right, but a man for the future. His campaign was based on the simple, unequivocal proposition: "One Canada." As a bilingual French Canadian, he appears to be the right man to bring...
Keeping a Distance. Otto Klineberg, a social psychologist from Columbia who is now a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, was struck by the contrast with his students at home. "In my seminars at Columbia, I could hardly talk for three minutes before I was interrupted. Here, it is hard to get the students to talk at all. One has to draw them out. This is the culmination of a long effort to keep a distance between the teachers and the students...