Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter has a high-spirited charm that shines out of everything she does. But even they have strained and labored moments, and certain minor cast members have no moments of any other kind. John Lasell plays the hired man with an ironic impassivity that makes a welcome contrast to all the posturing and shouting going on around...
...N.M.S. has become as influential as college-board exams, marriage or the draft. Not all educators are happy about it. Some feel that schools are beginning to compete for the honor of producing winners, that teachers are teaching for the tests. This controversy is likely to grow, an ironic contrast to recent (cries that not enough of the nation's promising students" are getting to college...
Such improvements are part of a $65 million rehabilitation program. The road, now in the black after years of heavy losses, considers the commuter a valued customer-in contrast to many railroads (e.g., the New Haven and the N.Y. Central) that treat him as an unnecessary evil. The Long Island has repainted 140 of its 160 stations, 75 of them in colors selected by the commuters who use them, has modernized hundreds of its coaches. For the road, which once stirred only wrath from commuters, the program has caused "an impressive improvement in relations between the railroad and its riders...
...most important reason for being a commuter is financial. . . . Secondly, if I were living in a House, probably most of my friendships would be with other House members. In contrast and far more preferable is my situation in which I have friends in almost all the Houses, in several of the graduate schools, and among people who have graduated and have jobs in the Boston area...
Racing together will present some problems, since Smithie rowing form is quite different from that of the Winthrop oarsmen. The girls from Northhampton use a one-two-three-four stroke with each part a distinct motion, in contrast to the continuous Crimson stroke...