Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast, Democratic candidates seemed almost locked in a closet-and indeed, one was. Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy spent the week behind closed doors, trying to work out a labor bill as a member of the House-Senate conference committee. Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was openly fretting because his Capitol Hill duties kept him off the campaign trail-and out of the news. If Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington had done anything newsworthy in the last month, it had certainly escaped the attention of most observers. Adlai Stevenson, returning from Europe, again denied that...
When William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick wrote last year's bestselling novel, The Ugly American (Norton; $3.95), they meant the title for the hero: a hard-palmed U.S. engineer working in Southeast Asia, who stood in sharp contrast to bumbling American officials abroad. A thesis writer might well peer into how the nation has curiously misused the title ever since. It has come to mean the very bumblers whom the authors denounced. The "Ugly American" is now a villain...
...budgets. Georgia now spends only $265 a year per public school pupil (U.S. median: $332). But it still provides all the services typical of a public system-free books and transportation, library supervision, an expanding guidance and testing program, adult and vocational education, special teachers for handicapped children. In contrast to Atlanta's private schools, which spend an average $625 per pupil (and in some cases charge extra for books, food, buses), the public schools cost less because they get federal money ($28 million in 1958), buy supplies on a statewide basis, get cost-cutting help from state experts...
...contrast with the low level of his prestige during the troubled days of 1958 (when he was more respected abroad than at home), the young King's comeback was spectacular. Ironically, he owes much of his new popularity to the fact that he has established friendlier relations with his old adversary, Gamal Abdel Nasser, who remains the hero of Arab nationalism, even if the enthusiasm of Jordanians for direct union with Egypt has waned. The border between Syria and Jordan, closed for weeks by Nasser's United Arab Republic, was ordered reopened by Cairo, and last week Hussein...
Whitehead, Chairman of the Advisory Committee, Lincoln Square Theatre for Repertory Drama, and well-known producer, stressed the psychological and subjective bases of the American theatre. Theatre in the Soviet Union, by contrast, favors the belief that "art that was psychological is decadent...