Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skillfully elusive commander of the Greek Cypriot underground during four years of bloody strife with the British, Colonel George Grivas was content to let exiled Archbishop Makarios and Greece's Premier Constantine Karamanlis do the political talking. When peace came, the 61-year-old soldier returned to Athens for a hero's welcome, promotion to lieutenant general, a lifetime pension of $300 a month, and a well-earned rest. But it was not long before peace and quiet began to seem to the old soldier to be neglect. The only people who sought him out in his suburban...
...Crown; $12.50), Rosenberg pays tribute to Cezanne, who shows nature's "very heart and skeleton; it has been these depths that I have sought, and seek, to penetrate." Yet he does not confuse himself with the master. Of his own pictures, says Rosenberg: "Whatever their fate, I am content. My landscapes are magic carpets on which I have flown from a world embittered by fear, hate and greed to regions of peace, joy and beauty. For which I humbly give thanks...
Knife & Rays. Treatment also is usually traditional: with surgery or X rays. For the most part, cancer specialists have to be content with five-or ten-year survival for their patients, and rate this as a substantial "cure...
...going population of the Boston area to the night air past its bedtime. When we succeed in breeding our descendants into supermen, a super-theatre may come into being to present Man and Superman entire. In the meantime, prematurely-born members of the super-audience will have, regrettably, to content themselves with the truncated splendors of such productions as this fine one at Wellesley...
When Jupiter occults a bright star, astronomers will learn a lot about its atmosphere, which is probably thousands of miles deep and boiling with enormous storms. Until that happens, which may not be soon, they must be content with shreds of information picked up in other ways. Jupiter sends out fairly powerful radio waves, which first seemed to indicate that the temperature of the atmosphere is surprisingly high: up to 1,000° F. Odder still, the temperature apparently fluctuates over a wide range...