Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp contrast to this crowding, the Argentine embassy offered relative luxury. Its huge downstairs rooms provided ample mattress room for 175. All had the run of two acres of lawns and gardens...
...hopelessly clogged. Said one publishing spokesman: "Most of this was hack stuff, trash. The public rebelled." No publisher and few readers wanted to see the paperbacks disappear. Along with the rubbish have come reprints of first-rate writing, e.g., Faulkner and Hemingway. Low paperback prices-in contrast with prohibitively priced hard-cover books-attracted a whole new reading public. Some publishers believe that the present shake-out is healthy, may restore some dignity to the paperback business...
...come back in six months with more work. Last week, just two weeks before his 28th birthday, the gallery displayed 44 of Jack's paintings on its swank walls, and hailed him as England's first 20th century primitive, a "Grandma Moses in embryo." In contrast to Grandma Moses' lovingly literal rendition of a world she knows, Taylor paints a world of dreams far from the squalor and drabness of the London slums he lives in. His landscapes are bright with unlikely color, his figures dressed in gay costumes of some imagined peasantry, his buildings festooned with...
Strains & Indecisions. By contrast, the impassive Communists appeared united, tough and confident. The appearance was significant because international conferences frequently turn, not so much on the skill of the particpants, as on the common assessment of the prevailing realities. Does the West's gloom at Geneva accurately take into account the realities of the two great blocs...
...Scripture Promises, and never wearied of asking God to carry him out of this world into "the very bright, happy land with beautiful sights and glories." But he also reveled in brandy, tobacco, the thrills of war and the company of handsome youths and boys. At best, this contrast between Gordon's beliefs and acts resulted in savage self-hatred...