Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popularity running high in the South and U.S. Senator Harry Byrd on the fence in the presidential contest, three Republicans slipped into these Democratic seats. This year, Byrd's Democratic machine is running on all cylinders behind the Democratic candidates. The Republicans are in trouble. (In contrast, Representative Charles Raper Jonas, the first Republican to be elected in North Carolina's Tenth District [Charlotte] in 24 years, has a good chance to be re-elected...
...honor to TIME for the fine . . . article . . . Most of all, you have pictured a real homespun American with the rare quality of good horse sense. It is really refreshing to know we have a man like Secretary McKay in Government service . . . Such a contrast to the goggle-eyed intellectuals we have had to bear with. Sort of gives a body hope again that our country may yet return to the good old private-enterprise system that made America great...
...that is genuinely working in accordance with the principles believed and has done some very remarkable pieces of work, a government based on the good will of the peasant population." In Red China, said Attlee, "there is no pretense that everything is all right yet. That is an engaging contrast to Russia, where we were always assured that they are ahead of the world in everything." And of course, in Red China, said Clem, there were "no flies...
Actress Hepburn's appeal, it becomes clearer with every appearance, is largely to the imagination; the less acting she does the more people can imagine her doing, and wisely she does very little in Sabrina. That little she does skillfully. By contrast, Actor Holden seems almost too true to a banal type to be good. Bogart, however, being as much a symbol as the Hepburn is-and a cunning scene-stealer besides-holds his own with ease, and sometimes even sets little Audrey down, toreador pants and all, as a Vogue model who has risen above her station...
...came 1,435 delegates for the annual convention of the National Medical Association, professional organization of U.S. Negro physicians. The encouraging news on every medical front: the bars of discrimination are falling. The delegates, who found themselves accepted in the city's best hotels and restaurants (in sharp contrast with their last Washington meeting 22 years ago), cheered a report by the District of Columbia's Dr. William Montague Cobb, chairman of N.M.A.'s Council on Medical Education and Hospitals...