Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land redistribution, it provides for the well-compensated expropriation of idle parts of big estates and their division among the landless. The new plan offers technical assistance, credit, housing and "fundamental agrarian education" aimed at turning the withdrawn Indians into cash-crop farmers and cash-spending consumers. In contrast to the Arbenz regime's land reform decree, which retained a lien on government-issued land (to keep beneficiaries voting the right way), the new law gives outright possession. To prevent estate owners from buying their land right back, it forbids resale for 25 years without government consent...
...triumph of sheer mummery-though inevitably the applause will not go to all the actors in equal measure. The women are excellent. Claire Bloom, as Richard's wife, has no choice but to portray a pallid case of hemi-Ophelia, but her softness is a fine contrast to the hard shape of Richard. Pamela Brown as the king's mistress, a role tellingly interpolated by Olivier, is magically effective; she says but four words ("Good morrow, my lord"), but she hangs in the offing like a sensuous portrait by Rubens, and fills the court with just the kind...
Lawn made 44 saves in all, 23 of them in the final period, and shut out the varsity completely over the last 48 minutes of the game. By contrast, Captain Charlie Flynn made only 15 saves. He made three in the last period and allowed two goals, but the varsity was pressing so hard that every Northeastern shot came on a breakaway...
...stepped up pomp and circumstance of the Quirinal Palace itself, which is guarded by 120 of the most imposing soldiers in Italy, the 6-ft.-6-in. cuirassiers. Has made more speeches and covered more miles in his first nine months than Einaudi did in seven years. In contrast to Einaudi, he accepts petitions, receives delegations, summons government ministers to discuss their actions. "I firmly believe that the head of state must stimulate and encourage the actions of government," he says, and intends to sit as "custodian of the constitution." He believes it is his duty as President to have...
...varsity, by contrast, is in peak condition, especially now that sophomore center Bob McVey, who returned to action in the Beanpot after a long layoff, is at full speed again...