Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...published letters are answered at scholarly length in the column. For a reader inquiring about the uses of leisure, Adler paraphrased Aristotle: "Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary, but it does not enrich or ennoble a human life. Leisure, in contrast, consists of all those activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually and spiritually." Asked to define justice, he quoted Justinian-"Render to each his due"-and Mortimer J. Adler-"Treat equals equally and unequals unequally in proportion to their inequality." Occasionally, Adler is stumped by a reader's question...
Living under a so-called "honor registration system," symbolized by the dormitory key, the 'Cliffe "signs out" by writing her name and destination in a special book provided for the purpose. Permission to stay out later than 1 a.m. is fairly easy to obtain, in direct contrast to Wellesley, where special after-one permissions are almost unheard...
...second industrial power in total industrial production," Macmillan delivered the jolting information that "we in Britain still produce twice as much as you per head." Listing some recent achievements of "our little island" (radar, jet engines, penicillin, the first telecasts), he told his listeners in words artfully designed to contrast their lot that "since the war we have built over 3,000,000 permanent homes. Most of these outside the centers of town are separate houses, one for each family, and have a garden...
...before, but rarely so well. Devil by the Sea is the season's most chilling tale, and British Novelist Bawden tells it with the devil's own gift of gab and style. She can charm as well as chill. The innocent childhood scenes she sets down, in contrast to the mounting horror in the background, are as engaging as any of the beach idyls sketched by Lewis Carroll...
...adventures of two ambitious midwestern sisters in naughty old Greenwich Village, lacks both continuity and imagination. A less skillful and enthusiastic production might have turned the play into a series of entertaining but isolated revues. Instead, Louise Bell and Susie Colt's direction has not only developed the contrast between the two sisters, it has managed to keep some continuity in the action...