Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Capturing the Conservatives. What now makes the Common Market more appealing to some Britons-its present lack of supranational goals-should presumably make it unattractive to those who dreamed of a united Europe. In fact, most of them are thoroughly content with cooperative unity. Says Walter Hallstein: ."Perhaps it's common sense to do it this way because we are dealing with conservative forces." And by capturing the conservatives, advocates of European unity have destroyed the most effective argument against them-the charge that a man cannot be a good European and a French or German patriot...
...painstakingly translated into French by Classicist Victor Martin of Geneva University. Menander emerged (circa 342-291 B.C.) during the decline of Athens, an era dominated by the Macedonian occupation. His audiences were no longer intellectually vibrant Greeks; they had an appetite for pulp stories that might have made them content watching a TV western. "Stay at home." one of his characters says. "A man is free nowhere else." Menander gave the Greeks sharply etched, lifelike stories, tenderly observed and hilariously written...
...first time in college track history three vaulters cleared 15 ft. in the same event. Tied for first: Oklahoma State's Jim Graham and Aubrey Dooley (15 ft. 5 in.). Oklahoma's J. D. Martin, who vaulted 15 ft. 3¾ in., had to be content with third place. ¶ At a special meeting in Columbus, Ohio, baseball's big league club owners finally faced up to the fact that other cities are clamoring for major league franchises, declared they would "favorably consider" a third major league composed of "an acceptable group of eight clubs." Said Baseball...
...Munch and Lautrec prince Comparing the precosity and decadence of many of the Nouveau's minor works, such as the Ricketts drawings, however, to the profundity of the masters' graphics, one sees that the influence of Art Nouveau on their style was only slight and, as regards content, the decorative school had no significant impact on either Munch or Lautrec. In short, there is no real ponit for their being exhibited...
...moulds the mind of his reader. By covering one speech instead of another, by putting words in the President's mouth at press conferences, by taking one side of an inter-departmental fight from a "source" and not trying to get the other side, a reporter forms the content of the news his audience gets...