Word: contrasts
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...work of Steven Marcus provides a refereshing contrast to the general sterility of the discipline. Marcus, a student of Trilling's and an editor of "Partisan Review" takes as his field of inquiry what he calls "the imagination of society," the ways in which writers represent the social world in language and at the same time become the self-consciousness of their society. For the most part, the social imagination with which Marcus is concerned is that of Victorian Britain, conceived as a crucial period in Western culture's response to the coming of industrial capitalism. So broad an undertaking...
...Morrow spent summers in Danville, Pa., covering fires, fairs and Elks club meetings for the Danville News, the local daily. In expansive moments, his editor would send him out around the county to research a farm story. Like many Americans today, Morrow feels that rural living offers a healthy contrast to big-city life. Some time ago, in fact, he left New York for a six-month sabbatical in Maryland and rural western Virginia, where he began work on a book. Yet, also like many Americans, Morrow discovered that his allegiance to country life was fragile. Says he: "I kept...
...contrast, Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 71, seems to have slipped, although he too kept his Politburo seat. His address on the economy ran only two hours, and, as he spoke, Brezhnev's chair on the dais was conspicuously-and un-precedentedly-vacant. That could indicate that Brezhnev intended to rebuff Kosygin, or that he was bored with the proceedings, since he and the rest of the Politburo had already read and approved the Premier's remarks. What may be more revealing than Brezhnev's absence, suggested U.S. analysts, is that Kosygin limited himself to economic matters. Noted...
...made their careers in politics--to develop a better working relationship with the academic community. It is possible that Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, who apparently was the moving force behind the Avineri appointment, is seeking to establish the Foreign Ministry as the conciliatory, doveish wing of the government, in contrast to Shimon Peres' hard-line Ministry of Defense. Allon has on occasion indicated, and here I too become a code decipherer, that his views on peace negotiations and a final settlement are considerably more flexible than those of his prominent collegues in the cabinet. But it is far more likely...
...third period was quite a contrast to the first two. Referees Frank Kelly and Bill Flynn whistled 28 of the game's 29 penalties during the first 40 minutes...