Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as three-fifths read Time and call themselves "moderate liberals," about two-thirds believe that America's two-party system is "satisfactory on the whole and should be essentially retained." In contrast, only one-fifth (extremists of both Right and Left) favor an alteration of the present party structure "so that sharper lines could be drawn" between the two parties--the G.O.P. presumably returning to its conservatism of a by-gone era, and the Democrats moving even further to the Left and becoming, in name as well as in fact, the party of the Respectable Radicals...
Just as today, there were eager pollsters, and in their freshman year, the Class of '34 was asked to designate not only their religious faith, but also their choice of career. In striking contrast to today, a fifth were Episcopal, a sixth "Hebrew," a sixth Roman Catholic, a tenth Congregational, a tenth Presbyterian, a twelfth Methodist, and another twelfth Unitarian...
...James Leong, who supports his wife and children on concurrent Guggenheim and Fulbright grants, rediscovered his own Chinese heritage in Rome, now turns out paintings of figures that one critic noted "look as though they are wrapped in dry leaves. If they moved, you could hear them crackle." In contrast with the age-old tradition of hiring a model and making her a mistress. St. Louis-born Sculptor Allen Harris, 34, who last year won Philadelphia's Da Vinci Gold Medal, uses his own shapely wife as a model. Minnesota-born Paul Granlund, 33, has sold enough work...
...five years, the Prudential Insurance Co. last week won a major victory in its campaign for variable annuities, a new type of insurance designed to protect policyholders against inflation. Under the plan, annuity payments vary according to the price of common stocks in which premiums are invested, a sharp contrast to conventional annuities, which guarantee fixed payment based on traditional insurance company investments, such as mortgages...
...Gallup offered little cheer to Ike's Republican Party. Asked to name the party of their choice, 59% of those questioned picked the Democrats, 41% the Republicans. By contrast, the G.O.P. had polled 43.5% of the vote in gloomy 1958, 41.5% in 1936, the blackest year in the party's history...