Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With blood-shot January all too vivid a memory, Lamont Library's late closing hours during last spring's reading period came as an undergraduate paradise. The extended quiet and comfort provided a welcome contrast to the distraction of new New Yorkers and the clamor of old roomates...
Politically, Joe McCarthy this week was indeed on the sick list. One of the clearest indications came out of Los Angeles, where the American Federation of Labor was holding its annual convention. In contrast to other A.F.L. conventions since McCarthy became an "ism," there was hardly any discussion of McCarthy or McCarthyism. Said a delegate from Chicago: "McCarthy is dead. Why should we bother kicking the corpse...
...contrast, the tone of Holland's visit to Chile was somber and serious. President Carlos Ibáñez, bucking an anti-Administration majority in Congress, has been helpless to curb Chile's feverish inflation. Of a comprehensive economic program he offered. Congress passed only a sales tax. Unionists, 520,000 strong (in a country of 6,100,000), reacted to that with strikes. Starting in August, copper miners closed down the big mining industry, and government revenues from copper exports vanished. Ibáñez forced the miners back to work by threatening to draft them into...
Ruins in the Ruhr. The strength-and the weakness-of Author Faviell's book is that it is written by a sensitive foreigner who was touched by Berlin's sorrow without fully sharing it. Heinrich Böll, by contrast, knows the inwardness of his people's sorrow-and only the inwardness. In Acquainted with the Night, Author Böll plucks three days from the life of Fred Bogner, a switchboard operator who has been drifting through the ruins of the Ruhr, drinking and playing pinball ever since he returned from the Russian front...
...noticeably bypassed Paris during his Washington to Berlin jaunt a few weeks ago, unofficial State Department spokesmen confirmed what was obvious to Parisians: Dulles had declined a conference with Premier Mendes-France to show the French people that the U.S. disapproved of their premier's policy towards E.D.C. In contrast, the slightly awkward haste with which Dulles has sought out Mendes-France during the past few days seems a patch-work way of atoning for what could possibly be a serious diplomatic blunder...