Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Those of us who believe in God, therefore, can never be content to live for ourselves alone. We must always be working to eliminate injustice and intolerance, and to create a society which carries out our ideals...
...Nazi German journalist, Jungk covered the U.S. for Swiss newspapers from 1947 to 1953, patiently stalking U.S. science and industry to find poor little superman in a hundred compromising poses. The total provides dazzling new evidence for old-world prejudices about the U.S.-prejudices which most European novelists are content to confirm with a trip to Wall Street, the Bowery, the Deep South and Hollywood. Jungk found other hunting grounds...
...really changed. Many a Briton is more concerned to be secure in what he has than to produce (and risk) more. Many workers, asked to do in four days work that now takes them five, balk for fear they will be laid off on the fifth. Many manufacturers are content to produce for a known limited market rather than risk expansion. It is this attitude that Rab Butler has set him self to combat...
Last week, at his banquet, Perry Smith delivered one final plea for the middle way of the "oldfashioned progressive." He denounced those who would sweep away all discipline and intellectual content from the school ("Certainly the old-fashioned progressive never advocated any such thing"). He also deplored those who insist that everything progressive is wrong. "As one great headmaster put it, 'You are neglecting to put the fear of God into [children].' Yes, perhaps so, but it is my belief that we put the love of God into children, and that is far better...
Notes & Echoes. From the experts at the British Museum, Keen first established that the notations could indeed have been written during Shakespeare's lifetime. Furthermore, they bore some resemblances to the few existing samples of Shakespeare's handwriting. But more important still was their content. It was obvious that the Annotator was collecting material for a project...