Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elected by "polite name-calling and Madison Avenue sloganeering" will also display statesmanship. Senator Kennedy has displayed a great ability at keeping his name in the papers; but he has not, as his flyer on the Algerian problem demonstrates, displayed ability to do anything beyond saying things; contrast Vice President Nixon's record of effectiveness...
...exquisite shots give this modern film the formal organization of Japan's ancient art; without smothering the immediate drama, Kuosawa lets village tradition and the natural processes of harvest time, love, and old age give a sense of timelessness. The dignity and discipline of the samurai stand in eloquent contrast to the grotesque and the demonical animality of the bandits. Some of the fight scenes, by the way, are better than any found on the tube these days. Many die, some with grace and none killed by the cliche...
...sharp contrast is the French and Belgian record. At the university level, most French Africans have been trained in France. In all the vastness of French black Africa-ten times bigger than Texas -there is only one "university" (Dakar), which is no university by British African standards. Nonetheless, France has tried to educate an African elite (though only twelve French Equatorial Africans are now studying in Paris). But the Belgians have made no such effort: the roiling Belgian Congo has no university graduates capable of running an independent state. Belgium tried, but too late. It sank $9,000,000 into...
...contrast to such savage moments, the exhibition as a whole reflected the Oriental ideal of calm delight, nowhere better shown than in the 32½-in.-high wooden sculpture of Hachiman. the Shinto god of war, who was incorporated into the peaceful Buddhist pantheon. Unlike his Shinto predecessor, the Buddhist Hachiman as carved by Koshun in 1328 was a peaceful and humble priest. "Even if I should have to drink molten copper," he once exclaimed. "I would not accept offerings from those whose hearts are tainted!" Koshun's image of him is clearly an offering from an untainted heart...