Word: contente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every sailboat man dreams at some time of cruising across the Pacific, running for days under warm breezes, dropping anchor for weeks at islands with names like Raratonga. Citybound mariners mostly learn to content themselves with a few weeks' cruising on inland waters or slashing around the markers in cutthroat weekend races. But young John Lipscomb, 18, and his father James, a writer and first-rate cinematographer (Blue Water, White Death), realized the total dream. James Lipscomb was able to sell the idea of a film about such a voyage. As a result, Son John became skipper...
...devotion he is like most other rodeo hands. "I can't really say I'm looking forward to this forever," says one, "but I know that if my ass ain't spinning around off some bronc's back, I just ain't happy or content...
...tricky, it's always done by someone who is a faculty member himself--the current dean of the Faculty, Henry Rosovsky, is an Economics professor, and his three top assistants are career academics as well. But Rosovsky has more to worry about than just keeping faculty members content. Like the people in Mass Hall, he spends a lot of his time worrying about how to cut down on the soaring costs of running a college education. Rosovsky and his predecessor, John T. Dunlop, have been steadily raising tuition fees at a $200-a-year clip, and there's no apparent...
...made Ford a national figure with a handy pulpit to express his views. He joined the late Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen in "The Ev and Jerry Show," a weekly televised press conference that was intended as a G.O.P. rebuttal to the Great Society. True to character, Ford was content to play straight man to Dirksen's grandiloquent grandstanding...
...course, there is also the lunatic fringe. Hard-core addicts are not content merely to enjoy the music; they devote their time and salaries to Beatle trivia. Jeff Symes is a pious Beatle person. He claims everything reminds him of The Beatles: He can't look at breakfast without remembering that the original title of "Yesterday" was "Scrambled Eggs." "My room is four walls of inch to inch Beatles. My Mom won't let me put things on the ceiling yet. Someday, I'll put it all in a museum...