Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stahr by a "mixture of common sense, wise sensibility, theatrical ingenuity, and a certain half-naive conception of the common weal." A paternalistic employer of the old school, Stahr, like his literary forerunner, is condemned to repeat the past in an age which values only the present moment. In contrast to Gatsby, however, his nemesis is not the carelessness of the very rich but the more modern venality of American capitalism...
...contrast to the mid-'60s, when most dome homes were funky, patched-up symbols of the counterculture, the average buyer is relatively well-to-do and well educated. Says Geodesic Structures' Peter Tobia: "The people we're getting today are the presold market that knows about Bucky Fuller. We're building a basically middle, upper-middle-class American housing unit that is a natural and intelligent alternative to expensive and inefficient housing...
Mixed Blessing. By contrast, the U.S. will probably not be importing much gas from Europe. Holland, the Continent's leading producer and exporter, is phasing out shipments to other countries in an effort to conserve its supplies. Britain, too, intends to hold on to most of the gas that it is beginning to pump from underneath the North Sea. Indeed, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European demand is already outstripping its reserves. By 1985, the organization estimates, European gas imports from Iran, Algeria, the Soviet Union and elsewhere will total almost 3 trillion...
...today, including those who may sneer at her preachings as silly. Some of those problems are as old as the Fall-problems of loneliness and dissatisfaction. Others spring from the new writ that women should find work and fulfillment outside the traditional confines of the home. Marabel Morgan, by contrast, quotes St. Paul's declaration (Ephesians 6:21): "Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord." Others may have offered more elegantly reasoned defenses of American family life-as does Arlene Rossen Cardozo in her new book, Woman at Home; still others may be attempting more organized...
...contrast between antiquity and modernity is less startling in the Drawing Lab, where works on the whole are made with much more recent material. Drawings on paper only began around the 14th century. Before that they were done on vellum, as in illuminated manuscripts. One of the chief problems posed by the care of modern drawings (since the 19th century) carries the ominous title of "communicable acid degeneration." Apparently, half-way through the 1800's, when people began cutting down trees instead of using old rags to make paper, the cardboard used to back drawings acquired a highly acid quality...