Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last talk of the fall, "Shape of Content," the artist will plead the case for communication in art, as against purely formal concern...
DeMille doubtless has good reason to be confident. In five previous attempts, from the 1923 version of The Ten Commandments down to Samson and Delilah in 1949, he has made a lot of hay in the religious field. But DeMille has not been content to trust merely in God. He has crowded the giant Vista Vision screen with such stars as Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner. Anne Baxter. Edward G. Robinson. Yvonne de Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price. Moreover, DeMille spent ten years in planning the picture, three years and $300,000 in research...
Pointless Crime. Leopold and Loeb had a homosexual tie, and 30 years ago the words "sex" or "perversion" or "degenerate" would have seemed adequate to explain why two rich, intellectual boys should make a game of murder. Levin is not content with this explanation. He points out that Friedrich Nietzsche had introduced them to the idea of the superman, "beyond good and evil." A really superior man, they reasoned-in one of those gloomy blunders which snarl up the scribbled notebook of adolescence-could put himself above and beyond society by the successful commission of a pointless crime. They burned...
...with the team--he has lacked push. Crucial aid to schools fell through largely because the President trusted his team and did not drive it. The testing of hydrogen bombs has continued because Eisenhower has been stopped by the untenable technical point of inspection. In Suez, the President was content merely to prove America's good intentions; if he and Dulles had any settlement which would satisfy the British and French and retain a respect for Egypt's rights, they certainly did not press...
...ever was tormented with"), and there is one glorious occasion when Lamb "dined in Parnassus, with Wordsworth, Coleridge, [Samuel] Rogers and Tom Moore-half the Poetry of England constellated and clustered." Coleridge, "in his finest vein," stole "all the talk," and "I am sure not one there but was content to be nothing but a listener...