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Positive action against Communist doctrine, Sorokin thought, should take the form of a vigorous battle of ideas, so that undecided middle of the readers "could see the superiority of our native ideals by direct comparison...
...comparison between the bad rich and the good poor is far too familiar and too pat. The characters she means to portray sympathetically emerge as sentimentally unreal. But her nightclubbing set is alive with sharp-nailed women and men whose roving eyes seek trouble and ensue...
Your Latin American department was off base in its comparison of the Portillo Hotel in Chile with our famous Sun Valley [TIME, Sept. 15]. You say the cost per person at Portillo Hotel is $9 a day with meals, while Idaho's Sun Valley Lodge costs $22 per day without meals, with an inference that this cost is the lowest rate. This is definitely not correct. The lowest rates at Sun Valley Lodge last winter for single occupancy in bachelors' quarters were $6.50 a day without bath. . . . The rates at the Portillo Hotel range upward from...
...bountiful crop" did not come up to last year's-the potato harvest was down by 10%, sugar beets were down 14%, and wheat, most important of all, was off 16%. Yet the Winnipeg Tribune could say: "Even momentary comparison of our lot [with Europe's] makes us seem as rich as Croesus: it is a time both to give thanks and to share...
...Committee's agenda are a comparison of medical care elsewhere and a canvass of insurance companies for group coverage bids as well as the preliminary inquiry into the operation of the Hygiene Department. Letters will go out this week to health supervisors, student governments, and student newspapers at ten institutions with "conditions approximating Harvard...