Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conference, with Tanganyika's Oscar Kambona as chairman, held its opening session in the attentive view of the world press, the TANU political hierarchy, and the local diplomatic corps. Although the ambassador of the Chinese People's Republic was tactfully seated some distance from his American counterpart, the reporters from the New China News Agency vied openly with those of the USIS for picture positions, while the representative of the Vatican press religiously took notes. Though the Morrocans looked like French grocers and the Liberians like American businessmen, the assembly was an impressive one and Nyerere made an equally impressive...
...Appliance makers benefit from the same factors that have created the unexpectedly prolonged boom in the auto industry: record rates of personal income and housing construction, the nation's desire to trade up to fancier models, and a strong replacement market. The two-car family increasingly has its counterpart in the multi-appliance family. Well over 1,500,000 households now are cooled by more than one air conditioner, and about 11 million families have a big TV set in the living room and portables scattered around the house. More than half of the 3,100,000 automatic washers...
...iconoclast, wealthy socialist John Tanner, is a modern counterpart of his ancestor, Don Juan. Tanner violates conventions, rather than damsels. Cunningham plays Tanner well, albeit very seriously. His performance falters only at the end, when he tells the predatory Ann in an intentionally farcical manner that he lover her. Earlier in the act, the confrontation between an American billionaire, Hector Malone, and his rebellious son is also performed with broad, almost burlesque humor. But the Malones' argument forms a self-contained episode and does not jar the audience...
...Quai d'Orsay are crowded into tiny offices in a large L-shaped building adjoining the Foreign Ministry. The service is competitive, as in the U.S., and most of its members are career men. A French diplomat is far less submerged in paper work than his U.S. counterpart. He is constantly urged to keep his cables brief and infrequent so that the total handle of cables at the Quai runs about 1,000 daily, less than half that of the U.S. State Department. The Quai's files are singularly bare of statistics. There are not even any biographical...
Sidney Goldfarb offers a non-fiction counterpart to this literary gingerbread in his essay on Mexican braceros, an exploited captive labor force in southern California. We are glad to see this Mother Advocate innovation, and had Goldfarb presented his convincing facts more starkly, his plea would have had more impact. As it stands, he crusades with the polemical assertiveness of a National Guardian editorial, relating "his single moment of perception, a moment so horrifying that all the backwash of cynicism one necessarily collects after twenty years awake in America flushed to my eyes and forehead, shattering all sense...