Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federation. In significant contrast with Dictator Nasser's balcony-built merger, the Hashemite Kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan last week brought forth a new constitution conceived in careful wisdom and dedicated to the proposition that member nations of the new Arab Federation are best treated equals. By late April both countries will have held elections amounting to a referendum on their federation. Then Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal, as chief of the federal state, will appoint a premier to name a federal cabinet, and the Arab Federation will be in business...
...your March 3 issue, a striking contrast could be noted: Missile Expert Wernher von Braun earns $16,000 yearly; Comic Strip Artist Charlie (Peanuts) Schulz, who "somehow graduated from high school after flunking algebra, Latin, English, physics," makes a whopping $90,000 a year...
...contrast, some newspapers handled the story with candor and imagination. Just as Democrats in Washington pedaled hard for political mileage, it was Democratic dailies generally (but not exclusively) that gave the recession the biggest play. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Louisville Courier-Journal and Chattanooga Times were quick to tell readers how the slump was affecting community and family life, personal budgets, taxes, jobs. Marshall Field's Chicago Sim-Times ran a human-interest series on the steel-mill layoffs at Gary, Ind. (and in a story on employment agencies last week unearthed the fact that first-rate secretaries...
...Western Hemisphere's Dutch territories. Moved by the overwhelming "cordiality of the people'' in The Netherlands' Antilles and Surinam, the princess, slated to become The Netherlands' third queen in a row, was gripped with a tinge of guilt. Wrote she: "How poignant is the contrast between people here and our own lack of interest...
Schoenberg's music, at times hideously difficult, underscores the contrast: it is at its sweetest and most melodic in Act II when the people of Israel prostrate themselves before the Calf, at its harshest when Moses struggles with his hard faith. In the arguments of Moses and Aron, the brasses snarl, the chiseled strings shriek in a web of complicated polyphony. The score is made more difficult by Schoenberg's technique of interlocking choral and solo parts in an almost unintelligible cacophony. The Columbia recording (conducted by Germany's Hans Rosbaud) demonstrates that Composer Schoenberg may have...