Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guilty in Washington contrast with the decent in Iowa--and elsewhere in the vast coalition of rage which formed the basis of the antiwar movement. Never before in history has a popular upsurge of such dimensions limited and eventually helped to end a foreign war. Bryan rightfully celebrates the movement's victories; amid the present lethargy it is well to remember that unprecedented numbers of Americans had the courage to challenge their deepest beliefs. An age of innocence has passed forever, and the liars will have a harder time of it the next time around. The Cold Warriors, as John...
...Carter's strategy of entering every primary except West Virginia's. Said Mackey: "I had the feeling that our people were running out of gas. With Bobby, the bench was very strong. The Carter cadre has always been thin. That's becoming a problem now." In contrast, Church campaigned vigorously as the man from next door and won with 34% of the vote to 27% for Carter...
...University dining hall early in the morning. Many of us moan and groan because it is early morning. But each time we do, we remind ourselves--audibly--how lousy we feel. By acting depressed, especially early in the morning, it's easy to keep feeling depressed. In contrast, by acting alert and awake, it becomes easier to feel alert and awake. Why be upset about that...
...dismissed) as good, dirty fun. In it, using a mask of fiction, the author continues with great tenacity and skill a campaign begun by the White House to vilify past Presidents and, indeed, American political institutions, so that Richard Nixon's behavior would seem less reprehensible by contrast. With that in view Nixon tried to declassify material to blacken Kennedy and Johnson...
However, the prominence of the Head of State's ironic and cynical vision does not reflect Carpentier's emphasis. Carpentier exploits the vulgar cosmopolitanism of the Head of State--who memorizes great quotations from a household dictionary to fabricate intellectual conversation--for comic contrast to the genuine internationalism of The Student. Despite his sneering, the Head of State serves the myths that falsify Latin America's identity, and the political forces that deny its independence. His anonymity is a well-deserved insult. But for The Student, as for Carpentier, anonymity is an affirmation of Third World unity, and the subservience...