Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to the Crimson's record of victories over Amherst, Northeastern, and Cornell, Tufts has yet to win, losing to Brown, Massachusetts, and Providence. But the game is nevertheless one the varsity cannot take lightly, for, as Wilson observed yesterday, "We always have a tendency to let down against Tufts, while it's a big game for them...
...decisions, in a flip-flopping score-um-up at the 147 class, Captain Phil Burnaman managed his second win of the season and just missed his second pin, outpointing M.I.T.'s Hyman, 14 to 10. Burnaman's victory method stood in sharp contrast with that of the other three who won on points...
...compulsive concern with things creative may contrast strangely with an intense interest in varsity basketball and football, but for Albert J. Guerard, 41-year-old professor of English, the contrast is merely one of many that fill both his career and his personality. A Californian who wears a checked jacket but carries a staid green book bag, an American with an intimate knowledge of the wartime French underground, and a writer of fiction who also is a critic of writers, Guerard humorously regards himself as a "controlled schizophrenic...
...Italy, "here I am lord, at home a parasite." The world of Nuremberg to which he returned with reticence is revealed in a series of woodcuts and engravings from the 15th and 16th centuries. Germany was barely touched by the Renaissance sun that burned in the south. In contrast to the freedom of the Italian artists, the Germans were still rigidly bound by the guild system. More important, they continued to develop the Northern, Medieval traditions, sloof to the revolution that had taken place across the Alps...
...book titled for the day desegregation was announced. Writes he: "The loveliest and the purest of God's creatures, the nearest thing to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball is a well-bred, cultured Southern white woman, or her blue-eyed, golden-haired little girl." By contrast, he adds: "The social, political, economic and religious preferences of the Negro remain close to the caterpillar and the cockroach . . . proper food for a chimpanzee...