Word: content
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make cows give more milk, and to combat tedium and raise production in offices and factories. Muzak, a leading piper of auditory tonic, has different programs for factory (brassier), office (subtler), supermarket (a combination of the two), and travel, mainly for airplanes. Plane fare is carefully screened for content; Stormy Weather and I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You are out. Muzak once played I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling and, says a company official, "we've never heard...
Never compiled until now, such fascinating statistics festoon The American Jury (Little, Brown; $15), a monumental new study by University of Chicago Law Professors Harry Kalven Jr. and Hans Zeisel. Far from content with statistics, the authors have also tackled a crucial question: how well or badly does the jury perform...
...British novelists, though seldom adventurous in form, are insistently complex in content. In The Seahorse (Atheneum) by Anthony Masters, 24, progressive education in England gets a gruesome going-over. Masters' headmaster participates in creative play with his assistant's wife, the kiddies express themselves by plotting blackmail and even murder, and a member of the staff releases inhibitions by decapitating cats. Masters too often manufactures sensations instead of making sense, but he can summon remarkable talents for projecting character and transmitting an atmosphere of educational gothic...
...Father Lepp's comments on second marriages for Catholics [July 22] follow very closely John Milton's views in his tract Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, published in 1643. Milton discusses the need for divorce so that man can be more content either with himself or with another: "And this doubtless is the reason of those lapses and that melancholy despair which we see in many wedded persons, though they understand it not, or pretend other causes because they know no remedy; and is of extreme danger. Therefore when human frailty surcharged is at such a loss, charity...
...spelling switch on Wealthy, given in the Puritan tradition of naming girls for virtues (Faith, Content, Honor...