Word: content
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murder is strung out by the philosophical intrusions of Sade, who leaves his stage-side perch to argue with Marat and deflect the action; by the blank verse narration of the herald, who prompts, cajoles and apologizes; by the petulant interruptions of M. Courmier, upset by the political content of the skit; and by the eruptions of the mental patients, who are paradoxically part of, and apart from, the aggressive "message" of the play. Everyone agrees that things were pretty bad before the Revolution, but Sade uses a cast of the permanently and prototypically downtrodden to illustrate his point that...
...Negro has been a permanent part of America ever since then, and perhaps the greatest advance of recent years is the realization by white people that his problems cannot be ignored. The Negro's recent progress, far from making him content, has greatly intensified his aspirations. The job of helping him to meet his legitimate needs may well continue to be the nation's most urgent piece of domestic business for decades to come...
Soviet journalists who are sent abroad, said Ehrenburg, rarely demonstrate any enterprise; they are content to feed back the cliches their editors seem to want. "How silly, for instance, to deduce 'excesses of capitalism' from the fact that in England there exist barbershops for dogs and in France there is even a restaurant for them." People who are kind to dogs, said Ehrenburg, are likely to be kind to human beings. "After all, we too are admonishing our street urchins to love cats and dogs instead of torturing them." It is just as bad, he added, for reporters...
These suggestions drew enthusiastic support from the American Academy of General Practice, which met in Boston last weekend to consider its own report on "the core content" of what it calls "family" rather than "primary" medicine. The academy's leaders urged its members to "divorce themselves from the present and think in terms of the future," when the general practitioner turned family physician will be "a specialist in terms of the function he performs, not a specialist who treats only certain diseases or parts of the human body." The new family physician, said the academy, will see "illness...
...fulfills William Carlos Williams' example and Charles Olson's precept together (Projective Verse , 1959: "A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it, by way of the poem to, and all the way over to, the reader.... Form is never more than an extension of content.... One perception must immediately and directly lead to a further...."). But he is wholly sui generis; his present work seems to be of infinite potential...