Word: content
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rita ("Jackie Lee") Flynn of Bolingbrook, Ill., from her mother and stepfather, Rita and Fred Flynn. The happy trader and his 5-ft., 100-lb. blonde bride-to-be then headed for South Carolina, where girls can marry at 14. They planned to await Jackie Lee's equally content stepfather, who intended to fly in and sign consent papers stating that...
...unlikely that anybody in Washington would make either faux pas these days, for Gough (rhymes with cough) Whitlam is stirring things up more than any Australian leader in years. Until recently, Australia resembled a sort of waltzing Matilda, content to glide through life on the strong arm of a big, steady date. To her escort-first Britain, then the U.S.-she was complaisant, undemanding and faithful. In short, Australia could be taken for granted, and often was. No more. The waltz is ended. Australia has started to rock, and to a beat that is her own. To the dismay...
...Essence are even more feminist in outlook. "There will be no positive change for any of us," they declared not long ago, "until certain basic institutions of our society are changed. Which is all the more reason why the black woman can ill afford to become the silent woman, content with cooking soul food and making incoherent baby talk at the dinner table in the name of black manhood." Most black women do not take issue with that view. But, like Chicago Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, they do not believe that ardent feminism is the logical alternative. Says Brooks: "Today...
...University of Minnesota. The Teamsters will shortly absorb an entire union, the 47,000-member Brewery Workers. Yet for all their recruiting success, often the result of extravagant promises to workers, the Teamsters in non-trucking fields have the reputation of a do-nothing union that is content to accept area pay patterns and collect dues...
...nostalgia craze is on the wane in the theater, and Irene demonstrates what happens toward the end of such entertainment boomlets. The content becomes a commodity. Even though it is supposedly set in 1919, the year in which the original musical was produced, the show is not nostalgic about anything. It fails to evoke a mood, a tone, a memory of any clearly definable period or place. It is strictly a product of the Broadway showshops peddling nostalgia per se, just as they peddled nudity per se two or three seasons ago as another hot line of goods...