Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carved cane like a fencing master before the academic Beaux Arts paintings hanging on the walls about them. Among them the clodhopperish. red-bearded Dutchman Vincent van Gogh, 34. Art Dealer van Gogh's younger brother, recently arrived in Paris, was usually a silent onlooker. He was content to drink in the new, exciting talk of pure, shadowless colors like a peasant swigging new May wine, then rush off to the Montmartre rooms that he shared with his brother to try out the new theories in dazzling flower paintings...
Knowing all this, Chiang Kai-shek nonetheless was content with his stand. "I only did my duty as called for by righteousness." he told U.S. reporters at Taipei. The Formosans see themselves as having in the past year made many humiliating retreats under pressure (Tachens, Nanchi) because their powerful U.S. ally had the final say in military matters. But in the U.N., on the subject of Outer Mongolia, was a chance to make a stand, even in principled defiance of the U.S.. and that defiance was a source of satisfaction. In Hong Kong an old Chinese proverb was quoted...
...Shower of Stars, and he was followed by a whole battery of Dickensian skinflints-Alastair Sim, Reginald Owen, Alec Guinness and the late Lionel Barrymore. Christmas drama also resounds with sleigh bells, seasonal cuteness and commercialized brotherhood. A run-through of the titles suggests the content: Christmas 'Til Closing, with Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn; Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid, on Alfred Hitchcock Presents; Christmas Story, on San Francisco Beat; Barbed Wire Christmas, on Calvacade Theater; A Christmas Dinner, on Kraft Theater; Silent Night, on Rheingold Theater; Santa Is No Saint, on Matinee Theater; A Kiss...
...Babes in Toyland. Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Tony Martin, Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Steber, together with unnumbered choirs, glee clubs and choruses, will work their way through a long list of popular and pious tunes, ranging from I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus to Adeste Fidelis. CBS radio is not content with bombarding listeners with music. For a full hour on Christmas Eve, Bing Crosby will urge travelers in railroad stations across the U.S.-from Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal to Los Angeles' Union Station-to raise their voices with his in a monster Christmas Sing with Bing...
Cards of Identity, by Nigel Dennis. This import from Britain was easily the most hilarious, mercilessly penetrating satire of the year. Its theme was badgered modern man looking for a self he can be content with, and the assorted phonies who are only too glad to bring him to couch...