Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Every Woman Knows proves a decided contrast to Henry. Barrie's rather faded comedy of the great hidden role wives play in their husbands' careers remains a sort of unfading matinee attraction. It is cleverly "human" without being even slightly real. Its little golden nugget of truth is heavily coated with all the familiar Barrie chemicals-romantic fancy, sentimental charm, playful humor, terrifying coyness and thick Scotch burr. And in creating plain Maggie Shand, whose wit and wisdom were the making of her priggish husband's fortune, Barrie was practicing all Maggie's guile...
Amidst the plethora of well-intentioned speeches that marked the first sessions of the United Nations General Assembly, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov's survey of the situation confronting the world peacemakers stands in real contrast to the polished platitudes of striped-trousered diplomats. No one has stated the problem of atomic control and the veto so thoroughly, nor probed to the heart of so many of the questions dividing East from West. But on both these major issues--which might be considered one in essence--Molotov carried his thinking only to the limits established by his own frame of reference...
...played her first U.S. recital in 7½ years. The concert had been sold out weeks in advance. In the audience, earnest young piano students used scores to follow her program of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Manhattan's concertgoers found her style cool, careful and womanly: a grateful contrast to some of the pedal pounding and frantic gymnastics that passes for virtuosity these days...
...Presidents have left much of a legacy to literature. The literary remains of Millard Fillmore or Benjamin Harrison, for instance, are scholar-carrion. Abraham Lincoln's writings, in bright contrast, remain fresh and readable...
...violent contrast that sets Palestine apart from its Middle Eastern Neighbors is indelibly impressed on the traveller's mind as he makes his way from the desert wastes of Egypt and southern Palestine, and finally catches a glimpse of the ordered green of a Jewish agricultural settlement. Contrast is your next door neighbor in Palestine: the winding and tortuous lanes that are the streets of Jericho and Beersheba; the broad landscaped boulevards of Tel Aviv; the picturesque and "perfumed" Arab Markets in the "Old City"; the Hospital and Hebrew University that overlook the New Jerusalem; an orange grove pushing back...