Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost loses him, first to her Southern prejudices when she finds he has lived openly with a native woman and sired two children, then to the hazards of war. There is a similar but sadder subplot in which Boy Meets Native Girl and breaks her heart. In calculated contrast to such solemn romancing are the rowdy antics and loutish amateur theatricals of assorted Seabees and Marines...
...penance. "There are many souls stretched out on psychoanalytic couches today who would be far better off if they brought their consciences to a confessional box . . . The very passivity ... is symbolic of the patient's irresponsibility, which the whole theory of Freud assumes. It is in striking contrast to the man who says, not 'Oh what a fool I have been,' but 'God, be merciful to me a sinner...
...fast riding and hard shooting, El Paso leaves a mildly unpleasant aftertaste. Its muddled moralizing on civil rights, sandwiched into its brutal, juicily detailed lynchings, makes an unappetizing dish. By contrast, the Cinecolor is fairly sweet and clean...
Denis Fodor's short story, "The Fall of Barkutzan," is clearly the best piece of writing in the lot, and perhaps the best story the Advocate has published all year. Fodor manages to contrast effectively the earthy playfulness of a carnival crowd in a little Czechoslovakian village with the ominous arrival of the news of the Gottwald coup...
...Webster's article does give the April Advocate an interestingly medieval touch and is in agreeable contrast to the simplicity of Fodor's story and the topicality of the "arguments" over the Clubs. It is just this contrast and variety that the Advocate is evidently trying to foster. The editors should endeavor in the future to add depth of thought and clarity as well...