Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indeed it is painful for me to have to write you a letter of such content," said Phillips, who feared that Yugoslavia might "slip back into the evil paths." He added, "This is none of my business ... I am only concerned with the human side of the administration, and I still hope that, in your relations with individuals, you can show to the world the basic superiority of a socialist social system...
Ordinarily I am loath to call your attention to errors in quotes. If you spell our names and list our college classes correctly, most of us are content to leave the rest more-or-less up to you. But since the publication of your fascinating article on Freshman Advising our office has been besieged by students pleading thirst and overwork, like so many crosses between Oliver Twist and the Ancient Mariner...
...official" status of Catholic papers confuses not only non-Catholics but many of the faithful themselves. In the view of Catholic critics, some hotly partisan Catholic papers, e.g., Brooklyn's right-wing Tablet (circ. 119,893), seem content to let readers believe-as many do-that editorial tributes to Joe McCarthy and Senator Jenner of Indiana are church-inspired...
...talents ("My gifts are small, but I've used them discreetly and the result is a charming little reputation") and his time (he deplored the excesses of the 20th century), but from the world around him, retreated to Italy in 1910, where he lived ever after in isolated content. Polite to the end, he directed his last words to the housekeeper he married in secret last month as death approached: "Thank you for everything...
...single works, e.g., Vibrations, he daringly switches from one kind of rhythm to another, from squirming to slogging to swaying to trotting, but somehow the jazz feeling remains. Vibraphonist Charles, not content with rhythmic exploration, exploits harmonic possibilities developed by Duke Ellington, uses dissonance to achieve color and mood rather than sheer shock. The album ranges from familiar (Nature Boy) to far-out (Lydian...