Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press conference next morning, Truman went all the way. Adlai Stevenson, he said, lacked fighting spirit and stood for a policy that was "a surrender of the basic principles of the Democratic Party." He accused Stevenson of aligning himself with "a conservative minority that would be content to act as caretakers under a Republican Administration...
...basin of antiscum compound, set them to playing cards and later to drinking whisky. They emerged splotched, red-eyed and drowsy. That cleared up the mystery. Like Antabuse, the antiscum compound (butanal oxime) was interfering with the complete oxidation of alcohol in the body, thus increasing the acetaldehyde content of the blood...
...offshore waters for abalone. The islanders' lives are far from a song. But when they rise from the earthen floors of the dark, dank-smelling huts, they see the morning sun dancing on the sea, and stately clouds crossing the horizon "like ancient gods." Teen-age Shinji is content to follow this age-old pattern of a life both dangerously and harmoniously close to nature. When he prays in the garden of the Yashiro shrine, he asks, "God, let the seas be calm, the fish plentiful, and ... in time let me become a fisherman among fishermen...
Both Elliott and Wood praised the Cambridge Drama Festival for adding greatly to the intellectual content of the summer, and also approved of the substantial increase in film, lectures, and conferences...
...this kind of dramatic handicap bothers Shaw the way an out-of-tune piano would have hurt Beethoven. What the playwright loses in motion and physical life he more than makes up for in intellectual content. Indeed, making Joan proud, self-righteous, and a military crusader adds intellectual spice to such questions as "Was she really guilty?" and "Would we burn her today?" It also leads up to the nationalism, monarchism, and Protestantism that Joan purportedly represents, and to some fine razzle-dazzle Shavian dialogue on these topics. In many ways the scenes in which these questions are most thoroughly...