Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quiet Content. To many an Israeli it came almost as a relief to learn that the Knesset bombing was not significant of renewed political strife. For one year after the Sinai campaign, Israel had cause for quiet satisfaction. The disapproval of the U.N., Israelis felt, had been lived down. But the swift efficiency of the assault had forced the Arabs to treat Israel's power with grudging new respect. It had reduced immeasurably the power and prestige of Egypt's Nasser...
...second work was the Variations, Chaconne and Finale by Norman Dello Joio. It is a well-scored and serious work by one of our leading contemporary composers, and a good work for an amateur orchestra to perform, being neither too difficult nor too trivial in content. The orchestra played it well, and one particularly difficult variation received an unexpectedly virtuosic treatment...
Dartmouth's undefeated football powerhouse struck with impressive power in the first half of Saturday's game with the Crimson and took it easy for the rest of the afternoon, quite content with a 26-0 victory...
Much of the credit for the picture's complete lack of false histrionics and general restraint belongs to director Frankenheimer. He is content to tell his story simply, without trying to make it a world-shaking catastrophe. The good taste of everybody concerned with the production is further evident in a happy use of black-and-white film and a regular screen. As a result, The Young Stranger emerges as one of the few wholly satisfactory American films in quite a long time...
...Black Boxes. Nor are U.S. businessmen content to stop there. Just as today's military radar sets, bombing systems, and automatic pilots are so fantastically complex that they must be removed and sent back to the factory for maintenance, so tomorrow's new radar ranges, electronic dishwashers and color TV consoles will have plug-in motors and control units that only factory experts will repair with special tools and special knowledge. The major labor the U.S. repairman will be called upon to perform-at his $5-an-hour fee-will be to take out a nonfunctioning unit, plug...