Word: dissimilarly
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More cannot be said for a book about Spain than that it contains no description of a bullfight. Two new books with Spanish settings, though otherwise dissimilar, share this rare quality...
Author Alpert, 41, who has written for magazines as dissimilar as The New Yorker and Seventeen, has some difficulty totting up the reasons for Sally's amoral behavior. He gets in a few licks at "progressive" education, cuttingly describes the "intellectual bohemianism" of Sally's environment, and then seems to veer to a primitive belief that women lack souls-or, at any rate, consciences. At summer's end all of the men have in a sense been used up and thrown away. The women, as usual, are in control. All in all, the book is satisfactory seashore...
...matter may have been created at the same time, and are perhaps still being created. Even if the atoms of opposite type are born in the same parts of space, they will seldom meet and suffer annihilation. Gravitational attraction will pull similar atoms together, while antigravitational repulsion will push dissimilar ones apart. The final result will be the segregation of matter and antimatter in separate galaxies...
...statement "to clarify my intentions in taking the action I did," in which he reiterated the Army's claim that it ought to have its own intermediate-range ballistic missile. "Both technically and tactically this weapon is very similar to artillery," he said, "and very dissimilar to aircraft." Nickerson's attorney, Robert K. Bell, former law partner of Alabama's Senator John Sparkman, implied that during the trial he might well grill high defense officials, from Charles Erwin Wilson on down...
...prize in sculpture at São Paulo's 1951 Bienal, Sculptress Richier, 52, does not see beauty as the world usually views it. Says she: "I am more attracted by the trunk of a dead tree than by an apple tree in full bloom." Along with such dissimilar sculptors as Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti and Brit ain's Henry Moore, Germaine Richier takes her stand as a Pygmalion-in-reverse. Rather than working inert sculptor's materials to the polished, lifelike perfection of idealized beauty, she clings to the magic moment of metamorphosis, when half-glimpsed...