Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modern and traditional architecture came slam-bang into dramatic contrast last week between the covers of LIFE. On eleven double-page spreads appeared eight plans for houses, four by "modern"' architects arrayed against four by "traditional"' architects, each pair designed to meet the needs and income of an actual U. S. family. By this presentation LIFE hoped: 1) to inform its readers of how easily any family earning from $2,000 to $10,000 a year can build an efficient, pleasant home; 2) to poll its readers on the relative popularity of the two types of home building...
...remarked on the food shortage in Germany, which we had been quite aware of, having eaten nothing but potatoes and meat for weeks. Prague, by contrast seemed crammed with food. Everyone had just eaten, was in the process of eating, or was going to eat. Another Prahaian (the German word for Prague is Praha) pointed out that as long as his country had the Skoda munitions works and people to man the guns, they never let Germany come near the border...
Though they contrast as sharply as any two political opponents seen in many a year, each has a social conscience, each has striking individual gifts...
Written by John Meehan and Dore Schary, supplied with data from Father Flanagan, who acted as technical advisor, directed by Norman Taurog (Skippy, Tom Sawyer), Boys Town presents its subject with commendable simplicity. As Father Flanagan, Spencer Tracy supplies a grave paternalism well calculated to contrast with Master Rooney's fantastic swagger...
...Chains to the Moon begins with a description of a modern city dweller, the unfortunate Mr. Murphy, jostled in the subway, unnerved by noise, threatened with peptic ulcer, bolting his meals, quarreling with his wife, depressed by the incessant pressure of city noises great and small, bewildered at the contrast between his efficient radio and his inefficient, cockroach-breeding house...