Word: content
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long as it remains closed the maritime nations will put pressure on Israel to withdraw from its east bank. The Israelis, on the other hand, have no intention of letting the canal open so long as they are denied its use. As for the U.S., it seems quite content to watch Soviet ships bound for North Viet Nam having to take a wearying 14,000-mile trip around Africa (v. 7,000 miles through Suez...
...earlier record the "gifted Kings and Queens" would have been addressed directly as Madison Avenue executives or corporation heads and Dylan would have been content to castigate them, instead of trying to reform them. Dylan frets over having been responsible (in the dream) for Augustine's death but the note of redemption that has been struck transforms the event into splendid, healing suffering quite unlike the gratification-in-pain so evident in Blonde on Blonde...
...Dark, Young is largely confined to a single set and must have the audience identify with the surface realism of the situation. Young succeeds well in meeting the challenge. The pauses and rushes are well thought out; the audience, which in this kind of film is usually skeptical, can content itself that it would react similarly. The final shock is a brilliant exercise in audience manipulation...
President Johnson is as ebullient in manner as he is expansive in vision. It was no doubt a difficult exercise for him to stand before Congress and deliver a report card on the nation's past performance and future prospects that was somber in tone and spare in content...
...years, the Washington Evening Star had been running a poor second to the Washington Post. Content to appeal to the city's upper-crust "cave dwellers" but to few others, the Star came nowhere near matching the Post's broad coverage. This lack showed up in circulation as well as advertising. The once bright Star was fast fading...