Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emerges. The weird intensity, the paranoid desperation of the man who believed he always knew the right answer, and alone could act upon it, is gone. Instead, we are given a shallow, simplistic portrait of events, with the personality of the Great Vindictor sucked clean out of them. By contrast, the David Frost television interviews were volatile--if such a word is not ludicrous to use in describing them--and gave a far more penetrating look into the Nixon mentality...
Israeli troops are stationed on top of Hanita's highest hill, and I can see their tents and guns while working at my kibbutz job painting baby cribs. It is an odd contrast...
Ranked 18th in the nation, the Tigers stand at 12-3, 7-0 in the Eastern League, and they have run off nine straight victories since dropping a 5-4 decision to North Carolina April 1. Harvard, by contrast, stands 9-4 overall, 5-1 league, following Friday's win over Brown and last Wednesday's 6-3 loss to Yale, a team Princeton handled...
...concentration of federal funds in schools that were still largely minority. But its centerpiece was a progressive concept: the "magnet" school, designed to lure ninth-to twelfth-grade students of all races by offering them a variety of educational inducements. Desegregation in Dallas, claimed Estes, would pose "a stark contrast" to the violence in Boston, Louisville and other cities. Placid it was, but last week the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found it inadequate as well. Noting that at least 41 of 117 schools in central Dallas and 27 of 30 in the predominantly black Oak Cliff...
State universities, by contrast, typically charge annual tuition fees in mere hundreds of dollars. Can there be that much of a difference in the quality of education at such schools, versus that at private schools such as Harvard? While it is true that state schools receive grants from state governments to defray tuition costs, it is most questionable whether the amount of such grants even rivals the amount of Harvard's enormous endowment. If state schools can lower their tuition prices charged students, why can't private universities do likewise? It is one thing for a tiny private university...