Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ignoring pressure to compromise, Laird took to the road last week with a hard line ABM argument. He told a group of newspaper editors in Florida that, "based on the best information available to me," the Soviets will have 2,500 long-range missiles by 1975. By contrast, he said, the U.S. now has 1,054 iCBMs and at present no more are programmed for the next five years...
...campus was free of guns, a demand that Perkins seemed unable to satisfy. Three scholars resigned, including Allan P. Sindler, chairman of the government department and a onetime civil-rights leader at Duke, who charged his colleagues with a lack of "integrity, guts, common sense and dignity." In contrast, English Professor M. H. Abrams supported the reverse vote as the only rational course. "To stand on legality, to temporize, would be disastrous," he said. "The only thing to do is wipe the slate clean." Historian Rossiter attributed his own change of heart in part to Perkins' appeals. "There...
Nashville Skyline, by contrast, has no tragedy and no drama. The poetry is damp and the songs essentially trivial. There really is not way of getting around it. Dylan seems too happy to be able to create masterpieces and one is glad only for his sake. There will be more records in the future, no doubt, but will they not be like Nashville Skyline, pleasant an perfect but low-level? And to think I almost didn't believe once the old saw that artists have to suffer or they're not artists...
...contrast to Lermontov stand Doctor Werner, his good friend, and Varvara Bekhmetyeva, his mistress, who pass through the novel unchanged. Michael Tratner, as Werner, plays from this vantage point with great skill, creating a physician who is solid and sensible, a man who has his head screwed on the right way. In doing so, he becomes the sorely-needed link between Lermontov's reality and his illusions, a function Lermontov becomes increasingly less able to fulfill himself...
WHEN I say romanticism, I am not being purposely insulting. I am not talking about Carlyle or Clean Gene, though clearly the word is the same. Nor is romanticism something to be viewed strictly in contrast with radicalism...