Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yorty was one of only two big-city mayors (the other: Chicago's Richard Daley) who spurned a secret offer of special federal aid earlier this year to help forestall summer riots−even though 34% of L.A.'s Negro youths were unemployed.. In Harlem, by contrast, the Federal Government's $4,000,000 program to make jobs for 4,000 Negro youths is credited with averting a repetition of last year's riots...
Love and nonviolence, by contrast, is the overriding message of Martin Luther King, yet after the riot in the Watts section of Los Angeles, Governor Brown thought it prudent to discourage even King from visiting California. King went anyway−and thus inadvertently revealed that though he may be heeded and respected by Southern Negroes and Northern middle-class Negroes, he has little standing among slum dwellers. "Martin Luther who?" they asked. Neither the N.A.A.C.P. nor the Urban League has any practical influence over problem-level Negroes. Who, then, are the leaders in the slums...
...Lasch skips over the '30's in a few pages, in pleasant contrast to Daniel Aaron's agonizing redundancies in Writers on the Left. C. Wright Mills and Benjamin Ginzburg are praised for defending the autonomy of culture against the depredations of those who called for Commitment. But Mr. Lasch is far more interested in the failings of the '40's and '50's, and perhaps it is here that he is most illuminating. He notes that the post-Marxist "realist" school of political analysis, fathered by Niebuhr on Kennan, Morgenthau, Charles Osgood, Louis Halle, and John F. Kennedy...
...whole six years of higher education, I've had a chance to talk to a professor man to man," recalls one Salzburg graduate, accustomed to Europe's academic formality. Opinions flow so freely at Salzburg that a Yugoslav seminarian once pulled a knife on an Italian. By contrast, a Norwegian fellow spotted a German at whom he had thrown a hand grenade during World War II, and they became intellectual buddies...
Syphilis continues to increase alarmingly in the U.S., especially among teenagers and young adults. The number of infectious cases newly reported last year, announced the U.S. Public Health Service's Communicable Disease Center, came to 23,000-the highest number since 1950 and a shocking contrast with the low of 6,400 in 1956. Almost half the new cases were among teen-agers and young adults: 3,600 in the 15-19 age group and 6,500 aged...