Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...content to have captured the bulk of the pop record market with their singing, the industry's goslings have lately turned to the menacing practice of writing and warbling their own tunes. Paul Anka, 17, a Canadian boy with a voice like a grouse's cry and a compositional style to match, wrote and recorded (for ABC-Paramount) an amatory yawp of pain entitled So It's Goodbye, saw it become a favorite of the jukebox set. A carrot-haired New Jersey girl named Beverly Ross, 22, deserted the chicken farm where she grew up, traveled...
...Soviets tossed him into an internment camp for former Nazis, although he had never been a party member. When Baer was released after three years, he headed straight for West Berlin to raise money for a clandestine anti-Communist humor magazine. Since the first issue, the content has stayed much the same: color cartoons, short skits, jokes and bogus biographies of party leaders...
...past 20 years, industrial designers have become a self-conscious coterie, well paid and well content with their mission : to save mankind from ugliness in man-made products. The work of such men as Henry Dreyfuss, Ward Bennett and Raymond Loewy in Manhattan and Eero Saarinen (who is both architect and designer) in Detroit has raised industrial design from a mechanical slough of vulgarity. For in the early years of mass production, the sound design of artisans gave way to the cheaply pretentious. The craftsmanlike simplicity of early American furniture was displaced by curlicues and overstuffing, and bathtubs took...
...Observer's notoriously excoriating critic currently on loan to The New Yorker, took the opposite tack: "In every department the presentation is flawless. The same, unfortunately, cannot be said of the thing presented." Whereupon he let fly with a long barrage of his famed artillery at the play's content...
...each of his objectives support the others. By flying Rebel Organizer Jacques Soustelle out of Algiers and making him his Minister of Information, De Gaulle yanked the insurgents' sharpest tooth, yet at the same time gave the embattled settlers enough of a payoff to keep them submissive if not content. By tying the vote on autonomy for France's Black African territories to the vote on his proposed constitution, he obliged right-wingers to swallow his liberal colonial policy, at the same time picked up 9,000,000 African votes to swell his majority in the constitutional referendum. By showing...