Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...romance follows its spontaneous and inexorable course, it comes into conflict with various not-so-natural values of the conventional world. Most obviously, there is the puritanism of the village pastor and others who try to prevent the young lovers from acting in accordance with their emotions. The ancient contrast between sophisticated city and simple country life also becomes an important element in the story, as does the struggle between father and son, between obedience and independence. The movie's ending is touching and appropriate, refraining as it does from giving an easy answer, or any answer...
...tautness. Debussy's "Trois Chansons de Bilitis," the best job of collaboration of the evening, were done with great delicacy and warmth. The result here and in a group by Faure was a fine sense of communication to the audience of artistry, feeling, and intelligence. Particularly notable was the contrast in voice and in mood the singer achieved between the Faure "Au Cimitiere," with its somber and melancholy lines, and the wistful "Adieu" of the same composer...
Citing U.S.-Philippine friendship, Nixon hoped "other nations will study this example carefully and realize what it means to walk side by side with the United States of America. Let them contrast your strength and security with the fate of small nations who were not united with us in mutual alliances. You are independent. But are Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania independent? Is there any freedom in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Albania...
...even the Harvard Summer School, sociably inclined as it is, will go only so far in this direction. Students will note the basic rule that "Men are not to be received in women's dormitories," and regular Harvard College students living in the Houses will note particularly that, in contrast to the winter policy, the vice-versa applies for them...
...powerful compulsion toward peaceful change toward a better world . . . During a period when international Communism was forcibly extending its dominion over more than 650 million alien people . . . the free nations were according independence to 17 nations with aggregate populations of around 650 million. Thus we have the most dramatic contrast between the dynamic liberalism of free societies and the brutal reactionism of those who glorify physical power...