Word: contrasted
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...contrast, Humphrey's demonstration that he could do well without Eugene McCarthy's flower power threw the Minnesota Senator's future into serious doubt. The doubt grows even deeper if one considers his odd behavior during the campaign, during which he first refused to endorse Humphrey and then finally did so only grudgingly. Two weeks ago, he declared that "I will not be a candidate of my party for reelection to the Senate from the state of Minnesota in 1970. Nor will I seek the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in 1972." What would he seek...
...sharp contrast to the presidential race, most battles for the nation's statehouses were decided early and decisively. Republicans entered the election holding 26 governorships to the Democrats' 24; of the 21 statehouses on the line this year, 13 were in Democratic hands, eight held by the G.O.P. When the returns were sorted, the Republicans had gained five governorships, raising their total to 31?more than double their 1960 low of 14 statehouses. The G.O.P. now had control of six of the nation's most populous states (California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania), if only for a while...
...contrast, Lowenstein ran his campaign with storefronts in all Fifth District towns, manned mostly by Jewish mothers and high school students. The workers, canvassing their neighborhoods, opposed Hampton on every point. They called for the unconditional cessation of the bombing of North Vietnam and the formation of a representative coalition government in South Vietnam. Lowenstein himself denounced the war as "the greatest tragedy of American foreign policy in many decades...
...become rather than to judge the other. The mode of Joyce, Sartre, Godard, drugtakers and anarchists, it excludes sexual stereotyping and indeed is a feminine mode in that it shuns ethical sweep for the underside of life that women have always been relegated to. (In contrast is the masculine, decisive mode of someone like Mailer, who emphasizes the battle of the ego with reality, the importance of choice, of change, of self-assertion, of evaluation coupled with insistent sexual discrimination...
Living Theatre productions of Frankenstein and Antigone have impressed critics across the country, who praised the group's imagination and inventiveness. In contrast to Paradise Now, these two shows had involved no active audience participation...