Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interests: the 18th century, and contemporary manners. Nor are the two unrelated. "At least you can say that one would not be interested in the 18th century were he not concerned with manners as such in his own age. And both the 18th and the 20th centuries offer sufficient contrast between the good and the bad to make study both interesting and enjoyable...
...wife, Walter promptly made over some $60 million in stock and art treasures. Perhaps because of his firm ideas about the inheritance of wealth, he did not adopt his wife's adopted son Paulo, though he gave the boy warmth and affection, in sharp contrast to Dominique's coldness and indifference...
...cold-water jungles of Manhattan. In Daedalus, Big Game Sociologist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman breaks form by potshooting in his own backyard: the academic world. Samples of his mixed bag: ¶ Although some students maintain "a posture of contempt for business and a belief that, in contrast, teaching offers integrity, the life of the businessman and the life of the professor have become less and less distinct. The professor is no longer to be regarded as a stuffy fellow. He has become a man of the world, perhaps traveling on an expense account, attending a conference in Washington...
...most important part of the story--viewed twenty-five years later with the subjectivity which the author cannot claim to have suppressed--is that it is over. The contrast between the days of Roosevelt and the days of Eisenhower is striking and saddening. Schlesinger has performed a considerable service in recording the old ways of response to crises before the life has completely gone out of them. But the undergraduate of the 1950's cannot help feeling in reading this volume that he has missed one of the most fascinating and vital periods of American politics. Worse...
...which Alice acts out her desire to axe her mother and annex her father, and the tense scene in which she is forced to reveal the real causes for her fascination with rabbits, are among the most pulse-racing moments in the history of the theatre. The scene, by contrast, where Alice wakes up to see the familiar symbols of reality, the beard, the pipe, and the framed diploma from Vienna, is as heartwarming an affirmation as has ever been presented on the stage. Magnificent--a word not often used in these pages--is the only word to describe...