Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shall we be content to sit idly . . . or shall we use [our] great advantages carefully, moderately but firmly and above all intelligently to help protect the world, which includes ourselves, from its imminent and continuing danger...
...rather with respect to those educational functions which, because most intimately linked with world change, stand most in need of continual revision, that I believe our colleges, Harvard among them, have been content with less than real accomplishment. For every potential specialist in art, undergraduate classes include many young men and women who are not there because they wish to lay the basis for a professional career in art, nor even purely for the sake of the intellectual discipline involved, but rather as persons whose taste in art, though they will never be artists themselves, will be of consequence...
...Music' I have as good a time as possible, especially in the spy scene, where I can flutter about to my heart's content, distributing revolutionary propaganda all over the stage...
Both of the movies to be shown have been widely acclaimed by cities both for their content and for their remarkable photographic effects...
Since that time most composers have been content to compose in one direction. Not so the famed, self-exiled German modernist, Paul Hindemith. Twelve years ago, before Nazi censors decided he was a Kulturbolschewist, sad-eyed Composer Hindemith dished up a whole opera in crab style. Last week an enterprising group of Juilliard Graduate School alumni gave this crab-style opera its first Manhattan hearing...