Word: contrasts
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Just five days after its ruling on the "reverse discrimination" complaint of the medical school applicant Allan Bakke, the Supreme Court last week turned to the no less controversial issue of affirmative action in the field of employment. In contrast to the Bakke decision, in which six Justices filled 154 pages with occasionally passionate legal arguments, the court simply let stand-without explanation-a lower-court ruling that approved numerical goals for employment and promotion of minorities and women...
When Dick Nixon was starting out in California in the '40s, some Republicans liked to say to one another: "He's our kind of guy." Despite Watergate, despite the universally acknowledged unlovability of Nixon, he still seems to many Americans "our kind of guy," in rudely definable contrast to "their" kind of guy. It is partly a cultural division-the difference between a sort of Nixon Class (some businessmen, blue-collar workers, large portions of Middle America) and the New Class made up of people who deal in symbols and information, not things: people from universities, Government welfare...
...court's tendency to grope for a middle way was clearly revealed in its criminal decisions this year. In contrast to the earlier years of the Burger Court, the Justices last term ruled more often in favor of defendants than of prosecutors. Last week the court ruled that juries must be allowed to weigh almost limitless mitigating circumstances, which may force many states to write more lenient death-penalty statutes. They also protected the accused's right to counsel and jury trial in two decisions, and in another refused to permit a "murder scene" exception to requiring search...
Again, this observation hardly rates as an intellectual or journalistic breakthrough, but it is still valid. The point simply struck home with an unusual force Saturday afternoon, perhaps as a result of the contrast between a pleasant, idle afternoon and the suddenly not-so-distant mess of the nation, brought into focus by the daily paper...
Coleman's group, in contrast, produced a dense texture of counterrhythms and melodies, above which Coleman soared in his solos on tenor saxophone, trumpet and violin...