Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powerful nations?often sentimentalized as truly "peace-loving" in contrast to the superpowers?have acted with complete lack of responsibility, being constantly at each other's throats in various nationalistic, tribal or racial quarrels...
...Guests. China's masters were secretive about the congress. They even refused to disclose its exact location (it was probably held in Peking's Chungnanhai district, an enclave reserved for high officials). In contrast to the 1958 congress, there were no foreign guests who might later tell outsiders about what happened...
...when eight officers were indicted by a federal grand jury, five of them for attacking newsmen. He complained that "the enormous power of the Federal Government is being wheeled out against them, and their employer, the government of the City of Chicago, has turned its back on them." By contrast, he predicted, "tens of thousands of radicals will rally behind" the eight demonstrators also indicted. After the radicals stage "huge demonstrations, go on television with their attacks on the government and the courts," Mabley said, they may raise as much as $200,000. He pleaded for $80,000 in donations...
CELEBRATION features Potemkin, a master of ceremonies and revelers, presiding over a world peopled by an Orphan, an Angel and an evil Mr. Rich. Simplicity and clarity are the order of the evening, and that alone makes the show a treat by contrast to most other Broadway musicals...
...typical of every other mixer I'd ever been to before. What struck me this time, though, was the contrast between this mood and that of the free concert. What had happened to the excitement and joy and fraternity we'd all felt when we were standing out in the cold March air? What happened to the smiling, grinning, happy faces? Where were all those boys who had been so genuinely eager to talk, just talk, to Cliffies? What about the invitations we'd gotten to come down here anyway...