Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casual contrast to the bejeweled pomp of the strongmen's council in Peru (see above), Arias and Figueres, with their Foreign Ministers, sat down at a table placed astride the international boundary line. With banana pickers, cops and Cabinet Ministers wandering freely around, the ceremonies were simple and unsecretive. Costa Rica offered Panama a written invitation, under informal discussion for the past few months, to join the Organization of Central American States, which already includes all the other isthmian countries between Mexico and South America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica...
...contrast with Buechler, Mary Harnett's story of a plantation lady's spiritual decadence is well conceived, but not always well narrated. Although her medium (the pianist who is afraid to call back old memories by playing her piano) would seem hackneyed, it somehow comes out highly original. Originality, however, when carried too far, is only once removed from mere oddity, and Miss Harnett's descriptions sometimes step over the fine line that separates them. "An Empty Salon" is a fairly good portrayal of the struggle for courage to live, but I suspect it was given top billing more...
Instead, Knight gave California his own version of Warren liberalism. He proved to be a skilled hand at running the legislature, and, in contrast to the austere, disciplined regime of Warren, he installed a happy, relaxed bipartisan staff (five of his ten top aides are registered Democrats). Last year he openly wooed the labor unions with a promise to veto a proposed right-to-work bill. His courtship won the A.F.L.'s endorsement-to the amazement of the Democrats-and after the 1954 election Goodie kept his promise: the bill was stifled quietly in committee. Wealthy ranchers...
Such preserves are the 296-artist show of the American Watercolor Society's recent annual and the ago-work Manhattan show of the National Association of Women Artists. Both are, in the main, muffled echoes of yesteryear. By contrast, Brooklyn Museum's aggressively progressive International Water Color Exhibition, showing the works of no U.S. artists plus a selection of French and Japanese water-colorists, is clear evidence that the abstractionist tide is still in full flood, with no ebb in sight...
...contrast, Dryden translated these lines...