Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ronald Reagan, by contrast, gains from his freshness on the national political scene. He has done unusually well for a challenger to an incumbent President. Reagan has benefited from a trend by more moderate Republicans to consider themselves independents, leaving the party more conservative than it was in 1972. Yet his pitch may well be too strident for what is widely seen as a year of moderation. He also gains his strong support from the discontented and the fearful, whose numbers are declining. The movie-star background and polished delivery have a stagy quality ill fitting the current accent...
...favored détente, but only one-third of the U.S.-auto owners did. Virtually all the Saab drivers-98%-voted for George McGovern in 1972; so did 82% of the Mercedes drivers, 80% of those with Volvos, 76% of the Porsche owners, 74% of the Volkswagen owners. By contrast, 49% of the professors with G.M. cars voted for Richard Nixon; he had been less favored by owners of Fords (40%) and Chrysler products...
...contrast, Jackson also has listened to Kenneth J. Arrow, a Harvard professor and co-winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics. Arrow last year signed a declaration condemning capitalism for producing "primarily for corporate profit" and calling for a search for alternatives to prevailing Western economic systems...
Berrigan, in contrast, devoted the bulk of his talk to analyzing American mores, without much mention of political theory...
...parts: the first covers late 1973 and early 1974, and the second bears down on the last 17 days before Nixon told the White House staff on August 9 that no one would ever write a book about his mother and then departed for exile in San Clemente. In contrast to All the President's Men, the earlier W&B account of how they "broke" the original Watergate stories, the focus in The Final Days is on the facts and off the reporters and the Washington Post newsroom...