Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Longing for serenity and harmony, Sung emperors liked to turn for contrast to closeups of nature, developed a keen liking for small and intimate scenes. I Yuan-chi's Monkey and Cats, almost playful in both subject matter and execution, is an outstanding example. Such paintings so won the admiration of the Emperor that he awarded I Yuan-chi the commission of decorating a courtyard at his palace on the Yellow River plain...
...bogus war exploits, the camp's tensions come to a seething boil, and the novel spills over into melodrama, j murder and suicide. Novelist Vansittart, 36, is an English teacher in a London I school; his compassion and scrupulosity in distinguishing good from bad Germans are in generous contrast to the views of his late uncle, Lord Vansittart, whose implacable antipathy could be summed up in an adaptation of the elder Cato: Ceterum censeo Germaniam esse delendam...
...imported food. The bearded faces in the Square are juxtaposed, indeed one might say thrust out glaring, noses touching, to the shiny, just-shaven whey face of the average American business man. Outside of the Schweppesman, nobody can get ahead in the business world bearded; it is such a contrast that is sought...
...virtue of the little car, of course, lies just in its being little. The great amount of crowding necessary, and the uncomfortableness that arises, make up for the loss of the windblown Lambretta feeling and impart a certain air of post-war frugality which is especially good for the contrast it makes to the over-stuffed and over large Buick and its driver...
...contrast has been the consistent scoring ability of the Crimson, led by captain John Simourian, John Getch, Bob Cleary, and Bob Hastings. The varsity has taken four straight since it returned from the South, by scores of 15-5 (Cornell), 9-3 (Tufts), 7-1 (Boston University), and 13-7 (M.I.T...