Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case makes palpable half-truths and even errors a which would be recognized as such if they were stripped naked of their glittering verbiage. Here there is no painstaking conscientious attempt to discover and portray truth whenever truth is not starting or when it calls for judicious balancing of content considerations. All is black or white in such writing. Truth comes usually in a gray mantle. Whether Broun in sincere but carried away by his emotions or whether he prostitutes his talents for the world's favor I know not., but I should surmise the former to be the case...
...been the intention of this reviewer to present "Ceiling Zero" as a dull play, for that would not be accurate reporting. Rather let us say that the play is free from impressive content of thrills or humor. It is well acted by a capable cast, starring Robert Ober, who would do much better, we feel, if he attempted to control the incessant and annoying movement of his eyebrows. Sandra Greene and several other pretty females dash about, adding zest and color to the proceedings. It's light fare which should prove soothing to exam-roughened palates...
...time devoted to reading, chatting, cinema and other recreation, and to underestimate that consumed by humdrum activities-sleep, work, rest, transportation, shopping, personal care. Protestants predicted themselves better than Catholics, and Catholics better than Jews, a fact which Dr. Sorokin took to mean that the higher the emotional content of a subject's religion, the less able he is to say what he will...
...part we were always perfectly content to leave these proposals entirely for decision to the League, but it is perfectly obvious now that the proposals are absolutely and completely dead...
Even Mr. Micawber knew that a balanced budget spells content, an unbalanced one misery; but Mr. Micawber never kept a budget. Neither did the Hoe family. Mr. Hoe thought there was something nobly American in owning your own home, even if you had two mortgages on it and could not pay the back taxes. Mrs. Hoe thought the niggardly pay she earned in a department store gave her the right to buy (on the installment plan) all sorts of luxury-conveniences. Their children thought that somehow there ought to be money enough to pay for their chosen careers: Dallas wanted...