Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rooms the researchers discovered a slightly damaged 10-in. statue of a fertility goddess lying face down near some primitive sculptor's tools. Carved from soft stone and rich in detail, the statuette is long and slender, in contrast to the crude neolithic sculpture thought to be typical of this early period. "In five years," says Peabody Anthropologist C. C. Lemberg-Karlovsky, "this piece will be lectured in all coffee-table art books as a prize example of primitive sculpture...
...Sharp Contrast. Baden-Württemberg was formerly famed mostly for the cuck oo clock, which remained for centuries the area's best-known product. Today, virtually every small village and town has some sort of modern industry, and the state's output adds up to an impressive 17% of West Germany's total. Manufacturing accounts for 54% of Baden-Württemberg's $18 billion gross product, a higher percentage than in any of the other nine German states. Some 10,600 industrial firms produce more and export more per capita than those...
...Ruhr seems unable to break out of its outmoded coal-and steel-based industrial pattern, which is slowly pulling it down. As cheaper oil and natural gas continue to win the battle against coal, an eerie stillness hangs over abandoned mines in parts of the Ruhr. By contrast, Baden-Württemberg is blossoming because it has attracted such modern growth industries as chemicals, electronics and precision mechanics. To lure new industries, the state offers long-range development possibilities, a sunny climate, air that is in sharp contrast with that of the smoky, rainy Ruhr, and excellent transport facilities...
...existential loneliness which Norman Mailer usually admires. One might say that the activity of ova involves a daring and independence absent, in fact, from the activity of spermatozoa, which move in jostling masses, swarming out on signal like a crowd of commuters from the 5:15. The physiological contrast of apathy and enthusiasm might reasonably shift to one of individualism and conformity...
...elected President, Humphrey would be under a continuing obligation to demonstrate his commitment to political compromise as the solution to the war. But on the crucial issue of Thieu's influence on a Vietnam settlement, the contrast between the two candidates cannot be overlooked...