Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...filled your Oct. 28 issue with live examples of the "Capitalist Challenge." What greater contrast can you offer than West Germany and Ludwig Erhard as free enterprise and France and Socialist strangulation? It looks as if your report should be made available to all politicians who would sell their heritage for a mess of pottage...
...contrast with Russian schools is staggering. In the Russian primary and secondary schools there is a standard nationwide curriculum. Children too dull to pass get shifted to vocational schools. The exceptionally bright are put into special schools attached to the universities. Scientific content of the standard curriculum: mathematics through trigonometry, five years of physics, four years of chemistry, general science (mostly natural history) in every grade beginning with the fourth. Warns AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss: "I can learn of no public high school in our country where a student obtains so thorough a preparation in science and mathematics, even...
...contrast the two imported cartoons which accompany the feature are both artful and charming. The first, Marten and Gueston, from France, is a clever and delightful animation of the drawings of school children. The second, a British import, is a bit more serious in nature. Called Animated Genesis, it most skillfully and beautifully depicts a view of history, even if one cannot agree with its utopian conclusions. Using colored abstractions in the manner of most avant-garde films, it is much more successful in putting over ideas by patterns and symbols than the majority of attempts to use this format...
Brown was especially good in the early stages of the game, grinding out long scoring drives each of the first three times it got its hands on the ball. By contrast, Harvard's first three offensive sorties netted a total of minus ten yards...
...same element of contrast strikes visitors, at least those who do not patronize the luxury hotels imported from Miami Beach and completely isolated from the life of the islands...