Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thunder but empty of any artistic value, is never exploited deeply for purely emotional impact. Much of the film's restraint springs from the acting of Kazuo Hasegawa as Moritoh and Machiko Kyo, already known to American audiences for her part in Rashomon, as Lady Kesa. They are content merely to suggest love by the slow movement of a hand, and desire by a grimace that lasts only for second. Where a Western actor would shriek, they merely tremble...
That was the way a vast majority of the people's representatives on Capitol Hill wanted it to be. But not everyone was content to leave it that way. Among those who were not was Admiral Robert B. (for Bostwick) Carney, eager Chief of Naval Operations. Apparently aiming to prepare the public, Admiral Carney gave reporters his off-the-record estimate that the Chinese Communists would probably begin an attack on the offshore islands by the end of April...
...does not quite fit the type. In him, the entrepreneurial strain that made millions out of oleomargarine for his grandfather had not quite died out. Mickey, who stood to inherit $3,000,000 by the time he reached 30 and whose mother supplied him with ample cash, was not content to be a plain young rake; ambition led him to capitalize his vices in pimpery...
...Work at Five. Tom Watson was not content just to build an empire; he also carefully trained Tom Jr. to take it over. The training started as soon as Junior was old enough to toddle. At the age of five, he went on his first inspection tour of an IBM plant; four years later he went to Europe with his father on the first tour of the new overseas division. IBM executives were frequent guests at the big, rambling Watson mansion in Short Hills, N.J. and at the 1,000-acre farm 30 miles away in the rolling Jersey hills...
...wayward charm lies in its passing epigrammatic remarks. Sample, on a TV M.C.: "He was a matador who played human beings instead of bulls." On reporters: "They have, every two or three years, the satisfaction of being told to find the truth . . . This is why newspapermen are content to wear dusty gray suits and to have love affairs which are 95% conversations in the back rooms of bars...