Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast between this tough atomic-age force and the red-hatted Janissaries of the Ottoman past represents one of the more startling recent transformations of a country driven by a compelling desire for social and economic progress. But the traditional discipline and wariness toward foreigners nonetheless remain the chief characteristics of the Turks, even while their scimitars and blunderbusses have given way to massive quantities of American-made mechanized equipment...
...many individual meanings, but for most the freedom it offered, "the right to utter" was one of its two major contributions to their lives; the other was the close contact with great teachers. Most of the essays are the relation of experiences with faculty members. This is in marked contrast to the two students recently at Harvard who commented on the grinding competition, the large amount of studying, and the activities. The only mention of faculty contact was that there wasn't nearly enough of it. A Harvard of teachers has become a Harvard of books...
Communism had all but lost the ideo logical cold war in satellite Hungary, 1956; Communism had all but lost the economic cold war in the contrast be tween the prosperity of Western Europe and the poverty of Communism...
...well-known than O'Connor and Lady Gregory, and his play is the slightest of the three. It is a plotless romp around a rural railroad station, and can best be described as fifteen Irish Alec Guinesses, turned loose in front of a camera. Good fun, and a fine contrast to the somber opening of the final piece...
...teen-age boy to learn the facts of life, which so flustered the sensitive lad that he flunked the course. Papa had been the iron duke, so imperious that he threatened to have his manservant buried with him when he died, "at my feet, of course." By contrast, poor Armand is such an average Jean that chauffeurs, spotting him near the Daimler, ask him whom he drives for. Can this shy, sweet and sad duke ever find Miss Right? Out of this soapy dilemma, cosmopolitan, gourmettlesome Author Ludwig Bemelmans, 59, blows yet another bubble of sentimental whimsy, wry humor...