Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since March 1937 this newspaper has taken a pretty resigned attitude towards the Harvard-Yale swimming meet. In the past, it has suggested, among other things, that someone with appropriate authority apply the Sherman Act to the Yalies, and of late is has been content with a little reminder, such as "It Happens Every Year...
Thanks for the Harvard-Pusey story [TIME, March 1]. Brilliant in treatment, the content goes to the heart of the values in a free university and a free nation. Teachers in all colleges owe Harvard deepest gratitude...
...first visit to Asia, he has been especially taken by the continent's antiquities, as compared to the newness of things in Canada. Nothing seems to please him more, or wear out his aides faster, than a visit to the ruins and relics of these ancient civilizations. Not content with merely a leisurely glimpse, he wants to visit upstairs and down in all the buildings, with an archeologist at his side to answer a barrage of questions. At Agra, India, the other day, he spent more than five hours and must have walked from 10 to 15 miles examining...
Nunnally Johnson, who describes Night People as "Dick Tracy in Berlin," has been writing screenplays since 1932, producing them since 1936. Until Night People came along, he was content with the dual job, making a variety of well-turned pictures in a variety of styles (The Grapes of Wrath, Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, How to Marry a Millionaire). Then, says Johnson, 56, "I got the impulse to direct. I said to [20th Century-Fox Boss Darryl] Zanuck: 'What about directing Night Peopled Zanuck said, 'What will Peck say?' " Johnson checked with Actor Peck. "He looked kind...
...pointed out that Communism faces formidable obstacles in its lack of moral, spiritual, or cultural content. "Yet, armed with a fanatical faith and a program of dogmatic reform in a time of tension and changes . . . it is a foe we can underestimate only at the risk of our own destruction...