Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement came in sharp contrast to recent harsh criticism by many high public officials of student demonstrations...
Unique among postwar efforts to aid the world's poor, the new bank-a brainchild of the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East-was inspired largely by Asians themselves. In contrast to the U.S.-led World Bank and the U.S.-dominated InterAmerican Bank, it will be run largely by Asians. At Bangkok this week and next, the sponsoring nations are expected to decide how the organization will be set up and where it will be located, thus paving the way for a ministerial meeting to be held Nov. 29 in Manila to sign...
...casualness rather than to their bigotry, and apparently successfully. Detroit is no paradise for Negroes, but they get better treatment from police there than in other large cities and they have more and more opportunities to move into neighborhoods that are integrated--and seem likely to stay integrated. In contrast, Los Angeles is not a very comfortable place for anyone: casual bigot, white liberal, or Negro...
...role of the raving Prioress should rightfully contrast with the sane and balanced Grandier, but Anne Bancroft still overplays it. Her Prioress believes too completely in her demoniac possesion, so we miss that nether-land between consciousness and unconsciousness in which the real Soeur Jeanne acted. Miss Bancroft also plays the unpossessed sequences with an overflowing wholesomeness, while Huxley discloses her character as both bitter and shallow...
...decision was "not the law of the land." Said 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 added: "The social, political, economic and religious preferences of the Negro remain close to the caterpillar and the cockroach . . . proper food for a chimpanzee...