Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scare caused by the mysterious disease that felled some legionnaires who had met in the city two weeks before (see MEDICINE), the congress expected to draw one million people, as many as did Philadelphia's July 4 festivities and the Chicago Eucharistic Congress of 1926. By contrast, the first congress of 1881 in Lille, France, was attended by only 800 people. That initial one was inspired by French Laywoman Marie Tamisier to foster devotion to the Eucharist and belief in Christ's "real presence" in the elements of bread and wine. Like the 40 subsequent congresses...
...Profits are called by many names these days, many of them bad. Obscene, exorbitant, excessive are the leading pejoratives. By contrast, nonprofit has gained an altruistic, almost hallowed connotation. Psychologically, that prejudice may be understandable, but economically it makes no sense. Profits can, of course, be immoral-if they are exploitative, for example, or result from price-fixing schemes or monopolies. But most profits are not so earned. Instead, they are an essential and beneficial ingredient in the workings of a free-market economy...
...These people are using me. They are out to humiliate me. And his occasional outbursts of rage create a varied texture in his performance; but these moments, which should be the strongest, are ruined, since Laquidara in confronting him is so unforceful. James's "impotent" tantrums appear overwhelming in contrast...
...rhapsodic mood in the mission-control room at J.P.L. was in sharp contrast to the tense atmosphere earlier that morning when the Viking 1 lander responded to a command by separating from the orbiter and beginning its 3-hr. 17-min. descent to the surface. Penetrating the Martian atmosphere, it shed its clamshell-like protective covering, deployed a 53-ft.-diameter parachute to slow its descent, and shortly before touchdown fired its retrorockets to brake its fall further. Engineers at J.P.L. watched nervously as the signals on their consoles marked the completion of each stage of the landing procedure. Because...
...showing the All-Stars trying to make a go of independence and then trying to break back into the league from which they have been summarily shut out by the owners. For social significance, the movie includes a player who functions as a sort of Jackie Robinson surrogate. For contrast there is Richard Pryor, an actor-comedian of buckshot brilliance. Pryor calculates every line and gesture for small, explosive effect, and his aim stays true. He shows up here as Charlie Snow, a third baseman who hopes to break into big-league ball by passing himself off as a Cuban...