Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CONTENT: "The press as a whole tends to neglect people's cultural interests. There is too little attention paid to the arts, education, religion...
Back in the 19303, Thomas Hart Benton boasted that his pictures-like those of his fellow Midwesterners Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry-were "illustrative, storytelling and popular in content, or so intended." Cocky, hot-tempered and unruly, Tom Benton talked loud and stood proud, and his fame was solid. But as a new generation's vibrant distortions and vivid abstractions transfigured the U.S. art world, museum directors began to shuffle his canvases into cellar crypts, and his name vanished from the critics' scripts. Benton did not help his cause by denning a museum director as "a pretty...
...shows," as most sophomores called them) at Holder Court. At about 1 p.m. the sophomores began milling around in the muddy courtyard; by 2, the clubs had shepherded most of them into their respective headquarters, in nearby dormitory suites, where they sat, each clutching a can of beer, either content with their bids in hand or desperately trying to negotiate their way into a club...
...painted on the walls of living rooms, in the naves of churches, on the sides of ships never turn out exactly as he would like, yet he is incontrovertibly one of the great painters of the age. If no one else knows it, he does, and he is content to wait...
...simply made fewer errors on defense, skated faster, and showed more skill on breakaways than the Crimson. Too often the varsity defenders were content to poke check at their own blue line, often letting their man get through...