Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which the Labour leaders might direct their curiosity. They might-if they can -seek out Kao Kang, who was the much-lauded ruler of Manchuria until this year he committed the unpardonable sin of "standing up against the party." Mr. Bevan should find this an enlightening interview. They might contrast the official announcement at the end of June that, "for the first time in many centuries," the peasants along the Huai river could now live without fear of floods, with the devastation that has since struck the area. They might raise the question of the brutal treatment and forcible indoctrination...
Presence Denied. By contrast to Knowland's troubles with senatorial prima donnas and his relative lack of experience (nine years in the Senate), Joe Martin has been a Congressman for 29 years and commands great respect from the House's feudal barons, the committee chairmen. By his gift for teamwork, his influence over chairmen, his control of the traffic-regulating Rules Committee, and by the tightness of the House's rules, Joe Martin has kept his House in order...
Scraps for the Dragon. By contrast, Red China, which did most of the fighting, is having to make do with the leftovers. Chinese technicians are put to work not on factories but on houses, theaters and meeting halls. The Russians gave the Chinese only one big colonial job-transportation. Hungry Red China also got the job of sending food to starving North Korea...
Growing Trickle. To many young West German doctors, the bait looks good. In contrast to the East, the Federal Republic of Germany has an increasing surplus of doctors. Of the republic's 69,109 registered physicians, 4,608 have no medical practice at all; they are unemployed, or making their livings in other ways. Pay for interns is low: 240 West marks ($60) a month. Even those with practices or hospital appointments have only limited opportunities. West Germany's currency reform wiped out the savings of many oldsters who were ready to retire, forced them to keep working...
...contrast, the sunniest tale in the book is by that late great skeptic, André Gide, who tells his version of how Theseus bested the Minotaur. The thesis of Gide's Theseus is that the cave of the Minotaur is seductive as well as labyrinthine, a lotus land of indolence and confusion which exists in every man's mind more surely than it ever did in ancient Crete, and that each man must sally forth from it after slaying his personal monsters of fear and convention. In his serene, neoclassic way. Gide puts a French accent...