Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tennis enthusiasts filled the lawn courts, and the golfers roamed from sand traps to the 19th hole. Many, of course, were content to wander about, shake hands, indulge, and just look. Every convenience was available to insure all such activities. The police, for example, cheerfully filled in at the softball game when players took brief dashes to the lobster tables...
...origin, Gloria's publisher said: "She filled her diary with poetry-her own poignant expression of a mood, the lonely torture of young love, the ecstasy of fulfillment-all intensely personal." No advance peeks at the verses were permitted, but Gloria herself offered a hint of their content: "All of my poems spill from life, from feelings . . . tender and thunderous, serene and raging and unique and true . . . Nothing is anything unless it is done from feeling, which is the same thing as nothing is anything unless it is done from and with love...
...trouble started, Kerr thinks, nearly 80 years ago, when Ibsen, later abetted by Shaw and Chekhov, renounced melodrama and fancy-dress intrigues and ushered in a drama of photographic realism and socially significant content directed at an audience of intellectuals. Like any fresh theatrical cycle, Critic Kerr feels, the one Ibsen introduced gave new vitality to the stage of its time, but unlike the Greek or Elizabethan cycles, it reached its height in its originators, and has long since outlived its original artistic impulse: "The best new brains are feeding on dead tissue...
...Knight was paid off with an appointment as Superior Court judge in Los Angeles. "I asked for the job," Goodie admits frankly. "Nobody ever gave me a job in my life. Any man who wants a political job gets it because he asked for it." The governor is not content with merely asking politely; he seeks what he wants with a whirling, all-out showmanship that horrifies his more conservative colleagues, depresses Democrats, and wins California votes in ever-increasing numbers. Politically, Goodie belongs to an old breed: he is an adroit practitioner of the crushing handshake, the baby kiss...
Sorokin, who initiated the College's department of Sociology in 1931, is content, however, even to glance at the idea of worldwide creative altruism. His early years, spent amidst the violence and destruction of revolutionary Russia where he once waited weeks in prison expecting a Bolshevik firing squad, impressed on him how necessary a formula for peace was to the world...