Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moving from a defense of his war policies to an attack on his critics, Johnson pointed out that civilian casualties caused by U.S. operations "are inadvertent, in stark contrast to the calculated Viet Cong policy of systematic terror." Even so, he went on, "the deeds of the Viet Cong go largely unnoted in the public debate. And it is this moral double bookkeeping which makes us get sometimes very weary of our critics." As if to punctuate the President's point, a Viet Cong plastic bomb erupted at a Saigon bus stop the same day, killing an old woman...
...Brasilia's Chamber of Deputies building for the swearing-in, a grim Castello Branco looked straight ahead; Costa, relaxed and enjoying himself, threw genial glances to friends and relatives. After the oath of office, Castello Branco stiffly shook hands with Costa's wife, lolanda; Costa, by contrast, warmly kissed the hand of his predecessor's daughter, then those of Castello's two granddaughters...
...small proportion of Nolde's watercolors had been translated to oil before his death in 1956 at the age of 88, and the rest form a self-sustaining cycle. Some 54 of the watercolors are currently on display at Manhattan's Knoedler gallery (see color opposite). In contrast to Nolde's earlier works, which stress religious subjects or Berlin's raucous cabarets, this rural cycle focuses on ordinary workaday existence, together with a few of the Nordic trolls and hobgoblins native to Schleswig-Holstein. Most of the pictures show pairs and groups of everyday people. Their...
...between 1907 and 1914. The differences between the two are a measure of how far the church has moved in 50 years. Produced at a time when the church was troubled by the Modernist heresy, the old encyclopedia was conservative and defensive in tone, highly critical of Protestantism. By contrast, many of the 4,800 scholars who contributed to the new encyclopedia are non-Catholics. The managing editor, Father John Whalen of Catholic U., insists that authors were picked solely for their knowledgeability rather than for their faith. The article on Jewish theological education, for example, was written by Rabbi...
...speed of Johnson's move was a happy contrast to his procrastination last year, when he could not decide whether or not to raise income taxes. One immediate effect: the stock market responded with its biggest one-day volume since 1929 (see following story). Still to be learned is whether New Economist Johnson can warm up the economy as fast as it cooled last fall...