Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life to this power "make personal salvation a kind of do-it-yourself project," it misses the very essence of my preaching . . . The statement that I "see in Christianity not so much redemption by suffering as an easy way to rise above sorrow" is a flippant distortion by contrast, where there is no inherent contradiction...
Privilege & Presence. South Viet Nam, by contrast, which remains within the French Union, is demoralized and divided. Bao Dai, the porcine Chief of State, lives in France with his mistresses, his Ferrari and his Jaguar XK 120. Bao Dai's Premier in Saigon is Ngo Dinh Diem, 53, a high-minded patriot but an ineffective leader, who is more or less locked up inside his palace by Vietnamese generals who want to grab power for themselves. In many of the villages that the Viet Minh infiltrators do not control,* local sects and gangsters rule with private armies...
...contrast, the Yale coach claims "an injury list a mile long" and denies vehemently that he is crying or exaggerating. At any rate, if Jim Armstrong, Conrad Corelli, and Steve Ackerman, dress, or if Vern Loucks, Mike Owseichik, Tom Henderson, and Paul Lopata see more than limited action, there will be 40,000 witnesses to the perjury of the Yale University Athletic Association...
...present heavy concentration in relatively few stocks is quite a contrast to the policy that prevailed in 1948 when Mr. Cabot became treasurer," the Putnam study state. "Then Harvard had 187 common stocks in a stock portfolio of $86,000,000. Today it has 168 stocks worth...
...Contrast Miss Scott's great persuasions against the limitations of the HDC's Lady Sneerwell and you see why the play's balance has been upset. Mary Anne Goldsmith only now and then gives signs of the genuine, luxuriant wickedness which marks Sneerwell. For this wholesale slandering, the production looks to Elinor Fuchs as Mrs. Candour. Looking like a malignant Bea Lillie, Miss Fuchs deals in double-dealing, and very adroitly. Andre Gregory, as the hypocritical Joseph Surface, matches Miss Fuchs' high standard of lowness and holds his own in the fast company of Scandal's College...