Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...criteria applied by Fuchs in his regional ruling stand in sharp contrast to the criteria applied by the Washington board in the Columbia case. Geographical separateness, palmed off by Fuchs as irrelevant, was one factor which he acknowledged might have weighed in the union's favor. Extra-university funding sources and separate day-to-day direction of operation were viewed as key factors in the Washington board's decision. The Harvard Medical area and those Columbia research facilities granted unit status seem to share these factors in common, despite vehement denials from Harvard, and even a statement by Powers that...
...contrast, a gag which works far better involves King Lear's obsession with popcorn. A supposedly dignified, elderly figure running around shouting "Pop, pop, Jiffy Pop," is ridiculous enough to be funny, and the Act II opener, "The Popcorn Ballet," which features men with silken flame neckties trying to pop female characters dressed as resistant kernels of corn, is one of the most excitingly choreographed and outrageous numbers in the show...
...contrast of wealth and poverty so apparent in most Latin American countries is less stark in Puerto Rico. Between the shacks and the skyscrapers lies a buffer zone of crackerbox concrete housing developments with a Volkswagen in every garage. Twenty years of industrial development as a self-governing commonwealth under American rule have created a large middle class whose veneer of prosperity conceals the extensive poverty that afflicts large sectors of the island's population...
This collection of assorted prose is a rather judicious picking-up of views and reviews, ruminations and commentary of all sorts, some speeches, an interview, a parody, and several miscellaneous vignettes. In contrast to the cover's jacket, which leads us to expect a kind of epistemological A to Z--everything "from Brazilian Indian legends and turkish sultans to symbiosis and suicide"--Updike's interests are literary. As is generally the case with reviews and criticism, it is not so much who or what is being reviewed that we read, but Updike himself...
...mastectomies and had cancerous cells in one or more lymph nodes, the results were, in the words of an editorial that accompanied the report in the New England Journal of Medicine, "nothing short of spectacular." Twenty-seven months later, only 5.3% of the women showed signs of cancer. By contrast, the recurrence rate in a control group of 179 women who did not receive the same treatment was 24%. The researchers concluded, on the basis of their findings, that the drugs had not merely suppressed the incipient cancers but apparently destroyed them...