Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a few of the topmost government officials know the precise content of the statement. Even the press last week remained officially unaware of it, for in royal-family matters, the responsible British press acts much like a faithful family retainer-protective, discreet, and only affectionately chiding. But for more than two years, while palace and government have maintained an icy silence, Britain's press has aligned itself solidly in favor of the royal romance. Without affronting palace privacy, it has done its best to keep the public up-to-date on each new development in the case. When...
...past Gartside has had a tendency to try to trumpet his rather small tenor voice, producing a loud, shrill, and often unpleasant sound. On Tuesday night, however, he was content to sing much more softly and with much more attention to quality of tone. It is still true that he has few soothing sounds in his voice, but most of the tight, hard quality of past years is gone...
Another rather disturbing trait of Wouk's is his tendency to lump the pastimes of his average people together with their morals. He is not content to show that people are admirable when they adhere to conventional morality, but must also show that everything they do--listening to soap operas, watching abominable movies--is just as admirable. Fortunately such passages are few, but their overall effect is to liquidize and sentimentalize the viewpoint that Wouk takes...
...notes are found in Mann's writing in the volume. There is a marked shift to the sensual. Krull's delight in candies and women and circuses are far beyond even the despest inner longings of Hans Castorp. The insistent attention to clothes, though possibly dictated by the content are a material-sensual innovation. Humor too is introduced in these confessions. Conscious irony, conscious humiliation of foolish people by a foolish man force chuckles from any reader...
...widespread confidence that Eisenhower has inspired. Critics in his own party, diehard Democrats, French neutralists, oppose him but do not think he will do anything very wrong. (Even the Communists, going along, profess to trust him more than other American leaders.) Popular affection for Eisenhower focused attention on the content of that word "mild." How good were his hopes of recovery? As far as could be learned from naturally cautious medical bulletins, read in the light of what medical specialists know about such cases, the chances were good that he would have many happy, busy years ahead...