Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow television for ten minutes ("We want to know you and we want you to know us and visit us."), taped a 25-minute program for radio; he wrote a signed article for Izvestia on the U.S. desire for peace, interlarding it with statistics calculated to show the contrast between U.S. and Russian life ("three quarters of our families own their own homes and their own automobiles, which war would all destroy"). And one afternoon, checking in with the Soviet Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Nations, he was told: "No need to take off your coat...
...contrast with patients who had real heart disease but often denied any pain, the neurotics persistently described the most severe symptoms. They identified themselves with genuine heart-disease victims ranging from relatives to President Eisenhower. They also showed "a high degree of secondary gain"-profiting from their imagined ailments, they got warm family sympathy and financial help, which released them from pressures and responsibility...
...nearly 50 years, during which most of his country and the world became a graveyard, the poet continued to write-and one of the things that shaped his vision was the contrast between the graves and his youth's calm summer landscape, the eternal tension between life and death. In Doctor Zhivago, one of this century's remarkable novels, Boris Pasternak carried that theme to its climax. With this embattled book he restored to the world the image of what Russia has long been, despite violence, madness and corruption -a preacher to the nations on the text...
...unwavering sympathies for the educated middle class in which he was reared. In this section, Pasternak takes pains to make his protagonist's loyalties unmistakable. The partisan commander is a cocaine-sniffing hophead whom Dr. Zhivago loathes, as much for his boring platitudes as for his cruelty. By contrast, when a band of teen-age White soldiers storms the Red positions, the doctor admires their gallantry. He feels that he must shoot in self-defense, but he cannot bring himself to aim at the boys who "were probably akin to him in spirit, in education, in moral values...
...soloist like O'Brien Nicholas, whose work over the past few years has been so consistently brilliant that the most one can say is that she sounds even better this year than before. Thomas Beveridge sang with his dependable musicality. And Sharon Price, breaking into the clique, provided the contrast of a more personal and emotional interpretation of her aria which followed an identical one by Miss Nicholas in the opening Bach Cantata...