Word: contrasts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that the Saigon government is unstable, undemocratic and unpopular. "For many centuries," explained Old Teacher Humphrey, "the Vietnamese people lived under mandarin rule. Then came generations of colonial domination followed by 25 years of almost constant warfare. This is stony soil for democracy to grow in." He noted by contrast that there had been little protest from liberals over U.S. support for Greece during its struggle against Communist insurgency in the late 1940s. Yet, he pointed out, Athens' governmental gyrations in that time exceeded even Saigon's changes of regime...
...Boston police did not heed this warning. By contrast, the Cambridge police shepherded the marchers from the Cambridge Common to the Mass. Ave. bridge with admirable control. They stationed men at every possible trouble point along the way. Though it was evident that their sympathies were not with the protestors, they brooked absolutely no trouble from a group of about 50 pro war demonstrators who marched the whole way a few yards ahead of the protestors...
...subsequent series of revolutions that shaped the modern world show an instructive pattern of contrast. The French Revolution-like the French themselves-was wildly impatient. Utopia was to be now. built on the flaming brain of Reason and the decapitated corpses of the misguided opposition. The Russian Revolution was another Utopia supposed to rise from blood and blueprints, though it looked to a longer time and more corpses before the socialist Eden would be achieved, and counseled strategic patience in following the drive of history...
Broad boulevards and the vast, empty Piata Republicii contrast sharply with the gleaming new apartments on the city's edge. An Italian influence is felt at Bucharest's Continental Bar, where "Miss Dyna Mit" slithers through a tassel-tossing version of Amore Scusami. The entrance price of 10 lei ($1.60) discourages most Rumanians, but the hordes of Japanese and German, English and French businessmen who haunt Bucharest year round take up the slack. The real life of the city is best seen on a winter morning at 5:30 when the first trolleys grind across the frozen tracks...
...indeed be a shoo-in. Since last July's bitter fight for leadership, Heath has failed either to unite the Tories or capture the imagination of the British electorate. On some social issues he has moved to the right, not exactly a vote-getting position. Wilson, by contrast, has become the very model of a middle-ground politician-homely accent, rumpled, and witty. Still, he refuses to be overly optimistic about the election. How big a majority did he seek, asked a television interviewer. "Just more than three," replied Wilson earnestly...