Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clever idea surrounded by dialogue that, expanded and given direction, might have become first rate writing. As it stands, it is a bit disappointing. Miss Johnson, instead of wrestling with such problems of construction as how to run some line of interest through her conversations, is content to let her sketch meander from its beginning to its end. Never seeming to head anywhere, it just wanders, then stops, building toward nothing in particular...
Illustrating this decline, he cited the fact that most colleges are now content to play teams of their own class, while before there was often too much competition for national prestige...
...society, when opinions become unpopular and dangerous it is most important that they be expressed. To yield to the "climate of fear," to become a scared liberal, is to strengthen the very forces which one opposes. Courage must complement conviction, for otherwise each man will become a rubber stamp content to spent the rest of his life echoing popular beliefs, never daring to dissent, never having courage enough to say what he thinks, and never living as an individual, but only as part of the crowd . . . J. C. Peter Richardson...
Lincoln & Sex. Most of the other car manufacturers were content to take the amount of commercial time normally allowed them under the code of the National Association of Radio & Television Broadcasters (a maximum of seven minutes in a one-hour evening show). On NBC's Producers' Showcase, in addition to an excellent, if somewhat dated, production of State of the Union, Sponsor Ford devised a pair of inventive commercials. The first, featuring an actor and a model, managed a provocative, if somewhat cloying, combination of Lincoln and sex; the second used the rhythmic movements of 18 actors...
...breaks down when written records are scarce or nonexistent. To find and interpret remains of people who never dreamed of writing, modern diggers have borrowed techniques from many other sciences. They study airplane photographs for soil disturbance. They analyze their finds chemically and date them by their content of radioactive Carbon...