Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bacon. Seeing Acheson off at Washington's airport, the President was in high spirits in sharp contrast to his sober farewells to George Marshall. He joshed photographers, shook hands all around, posed with all comers. Standing next to Acheson, he saw Vice President Barkley- drive up, announced briskly: "Here's the Veep," and pumped his hand. At the top of the ladder, Acheson turned and waved cheerily. "Bring home the bacon," shouted John J. McCloy, the new American High Commissioner in Germany. "Bon voyage" shouted Alben Barkley. Harry Truman looked at him in mock amazement. "What...
...Should AMERICA'S College Professors be pro-AMERICAN? A thought-provoking contrast in points of view from Bloomfield College...
...twin towns of Altenstadt and Neuburg, on either side of the Elbe, in the Soviet and American zones of Germany. One dramatic shot shows Russians and Americans meeting on the Elbe, with Russian guns grimly pointed westward. The hard-working Russian hero, Major Nikita Kuzmin, is a glaring contrast to the American Major James Hill, an amiable good-for-nothing who carries a bottle of Black & White Scotch in his hip pocket, and tries to involve his highminded Russian opposite number in "some kind of a little deal" on the black market...
Male support is consistently top-level. Arthur Kennedy and Paul Stewart, as the crippled brother and manager of the champion, make perfect foils for Douglas. Their humaneness and concern are in sharp contrast with his simple-minded machine destruction; their relative smallness, in spite of their warmth, shows all the more his brutal greatness...
Luis Bello, the experienced matador, gradually becomes aware of the power of the bulls and afraid of their horns. His wariness makes him a poor fighter. A fine contrast is created between Luis and his younger brother, Pepe, a new matador who is eager to fight and does not know of fear. The spirit of the fight eventually returns to Luis and drives out the fear, but the reader is left with a vivid impression of the power of sharp horns...