Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Atop one of Jerusalem's olive-tree-cluttered ridges stands one of man's most unusual monuments to the past. Against the skyline, a white-tiled dome swells from a watery moat to contrast with a black basalt wall aflicker with flames. These dramatic structures mark the new home, dedicated last week, for Israel's collection of Dead Sea Scrolls (see opposite...
Yale's program, in contrast to existing foreign study programs, calls for a virtual furlough from academic discipline. In contrast to Harvard's leave of absence, it integrates that furlough with courses and tutorial when the student returns. It "consciously breaks the sequence of testable learning," says President Brewster, "not under the shadow of opprobrium or for a fancy 'grand tour' but as part of a programmed educational pattern which splices experience with learning." The essential feature of Yale's program is neither its $300,000 nor its provision for a year in underdeveloped areas. It is rather than...
...years puts on a U.S.-style orgy of elections for the one presidential candidate on the ballot, who has been secretly selected by the P.R.I. party chiefs. Yet somehow it all works out fairly democratically, producing a metronomic swing from left to right in the P.R.I. governments. Argentina, in contrast, has the democratic forms without the music: in self-defense, the regime reserves the right to veto candidates backing exiled Dictator Juan Perón, who, were he permitted back, could make a Napoleonic return to power...
...contrast, a Frenchman who fails to help another when he can do so without risk is liable for up to five years in prison and a $3,000 fine. The law's rationale, explained Sorbonne Law Professor André Tunc, is that a bystander "participates in the murder by his decision not to intervene." Similar laws are on the books in Britain, Germany, Italy and Russia. Surveys do not show that citizens of those countries feel any more like helping, said Chicago Sociologist Hans Zeisel. But in a comparative study of U.S. and German students, Zeisel found that...
...conservative than the politicians they serve and the voters they try to persuade. They are perhaps, good representatives of those who still call themselves Republicans (80 per cent of whom voted for Goldwater in November), but not of those who can usually be depended on to vote Republican. In contrast, Democratic party workers virtually never fail to support their chief's programs...