Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Separate Channels. Already the outlying areas are operating almost like separate countries. Djakarta customs officers inspect the luggage of Sumatra-bound passengers as if they were flying to a hostile country. In contrast to Djakarta, Colonel Simbolon's Padang was remarkably peaceful, secure, and spotlessly clean. It was also much healthier economically. Padang's cost-of-living index has risen 77 points in the last five years against 144 for Djakarta; bartering its rubber with Singapore produces an estimated $1,500,000 a month in profits. When Djakarta seized eight South Sumatran ships in an effort to halt...
...maid who is at one point compared to a walrus and who never travels without her goldfish, often squawks excellently, although her accent seems queasy. Her face is powerful. Richard Gavin plays the nephew with grace, youth, and a good balance of strength and weakness; he makes an effective contrast to the old judge, played by the director. Ree Christiansen, the fierce sister, screws her icy nerves up so tightly that it is nearly distracting wondering whether she will break. The rest of the fairly large cast, especially Roz Faber (in both of her roles) and Gloria DePiero...
YUGOSLAVIA. Tito has signed agreements for about $450 million in nonmilitary aid -more than Russia has granted any other non-satellite nation. But in contrast with their usual practice, the Russians make little attempt to disguise the political strings attached to their offers to Yugoslavia, have pointedly frozen credits already agreed upon when displeased by Tito's diplomatic posture. (One consequence of this is that, despite the fact that the Russians first agreed to supply credits for it in August 1956, construction of a $175 million aluminum plant in Montenegro has now been postponed to 1960 at the earliest...
Under the field generalship of 5 ft. 9 in. guard Stan Needleman, the New Yorkers play a slow, deliberate game and wait for the good shot. Their conservative style of play, in sharp contrast to the play of last year's fire-house five, enabled the Lions to upset Cornell by four points in their only League encounter to date...
Freeman's poem, in contrast, specifically recognizes the existence of an audience. Certainly the most successful work in this Advocate, it is an hortatory stage whisper to "an audience" accompanied by appropriate rhythmic gestures. The poet succeeds in sharing with his readers some of stagecraft's "dreams," "contrived hallucinations" through which one might "Now in attentive webs, catch rapture fleeting." The sounds are precise, pleasing, and appropriate. The images cast out to the listeners are nearly as fine as the sound that bears them, and there is a welcome humor in the poem's treatment of itself...