Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the most serious deficiency of this book is, however, its failure to conform to supposedly "aesthetic" criteria. This book is badly written, badly constructed, and shows no evidence of having been designed to communicate anything of significance to the reader. It is perfectly possible that the absence of content is due to Dr. Farnsworth's intention of acting as a popularizer. But a man who brings science to the people must tell these people something that they do not know, or he will be useless...
...spectate the exuberant Roosevelt could not. He continually participated in class discussions, and insisted on arguing with his professors. He was not content to let words of wisdom wash lightly over him from the lectern. His persistent questions and protests once so exasperated his science professor, Nathaniel Shaler, that the latter exploded, "See here, Roosevelt, let me talk. I'm running this course...
While women are trying to look like balloons or gunny sacks, men are generally content to look like...
...company prospered, but Oppenheimer was not content with gold. He liked diamonds. He spotted the possibilities in Southwest African fields captured from the Germans, and beat to the punch the stodgy starched-collared heirs of Cecil Rhodes, the legendary empire builder and diamond czar who died in 1902. Then he tackled the giant of the diamond world, De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. He bored from within, buying stock on the Johannesburg exchange, share by share, until he had enough to become a director...
...screening of the picture, relied on Justice Brennan's opinion for a standard of obscenity: "Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. [Obscenity] deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest." The court thus seemed to reach its conclusion on the evidence of the film's content alone, not on the fundamental question of prior restraint, i.e., the constitutionality of community and state censorship laws. It has yet to make its views known on that score...