Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot, after completing Murder in the Cathedral, was determined to write a verse play with a contemporary theme and a contemporary setting. The drawing-room setting he contrived was not only fitted for traditional moments of comedy, it made for eerie moments of contrast. The nobleman hero's return to his family, to confess to his own guilty crime while absent and then to smoke out the atmosphere of crime and guilt that haunted his childhood, is charged with ominous Aeschylean echoes. The Greek Furies themselves still hunt the criminal down, until he is able to convert an Orestes...
...This odd contrast of styles has a crippling effect on Salamanca's torrential first novel, which carries Jim Blackstarr from his fourth to his 17th year in and around Charlottesville, Va. The book is drunk on nature, the round of the seasons, the beauty of women. Whatever lucky Jim wants in females he gets, whether it is Neighbor Betty Lee, whose "cool firm thighs were like two great silver carp," or Cousin Nory, whose thighs, "with their milk-white, melon-firm flesh, struck his mind with ruinous astonishment." or Schoolteacher Irene, whose thighs are "like moist and mobile alabaster...
...Pennsylvania picture, by contrast, could hardly be blacker. The Quakers were figured to be a top Ivy team this year, and yet they have managed to win only one out of five games to date. Last week they took a terriffic shellacking from nationally-ranked Navy--something not exactly calculated to raise team morale...
...contrast to the tough games of last week, the varsity soccer team will have a breathing space in today's game against underdog Wesleyan. The Connecticut team has lost six games...
...Ambassador hailed the granting of independence to Cuba by Roosevelt as "part of the American tradition" of foreign policy. It was, he said, in line with the recent withdrawal of U.S. troops from Lebanon, and in contrast to the actions of the Russians, "who enter a country and stick there...