Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understand immediately. Several hundred films have used ground fog rising off fields and the dark figures of waiting men to give the same contrast between soft landscape and hard purpose. A duel is to be fought. The swordplayers level rapiers, hold, touch blades in saute, fight. One falls, too badly wounded to continue...
...contrast with the previous games, Harvard came to Dartmouth looking for the free shooter on the outside. Passing was for the most part quick and accurate, so that the Crimson had the option of either working inside or taking the shot from the field...
...contrast, Begin's negotiating partner, Anwar Sadat of Egypt, last year faced pressures from religious militants for a law making apostasy a capital crime for Muslims. Egyptian Christians raised such an outcry that Sadat made sure that the bill was buried...
...continue endurance tests and perhaps to break the U.S. astronaut record of 84 days in orbit. If all goes according to plan, the Soviets will have shown that they can keep a permanent observatory in the sky, staffed by relays of spaceships bringing up fresh supplies and personnel. By contrast, during the U.S.'s comparable Skylab missions in 1973 and 1974, no more than a single Apollo ferry ship at one time ever docked with the station, and the space station was left unmanned for weeks...
Glib cynicism often greets attacks on existing society, yet the outbursts against members of groups like Hare Krishna are generally hysterical. Perhaps the contrast can be explained by the uneasiness--sometimes terror--people have felt since before the time of Socrates when faced with something they do not understand. Thus, a financier may quite coldly denounce a Marxist critique of the capitalist system, but when he is told that his son or daughter has joined a mystical Oriental sect he goes frantic trying to combat a system that baffles...