Word: contente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There ought to be a truth-in-labeling law to separate truth and fiction. But who could write it, and who would pass it? Since there won't be any such law, everybody concerned-and TV docu-dramatists most of all-should be held more accountable for fat content and fact content, properly labeled...
With only 35 seconds left Yale was content to surrender a safety and run out the clock...
...plans to publish 10,000 more.) The reason seems to be that Lasky tells readers something that quite a few of them want to hear: that abuse of presidential power did not start with Richard Nixon. No responsible authority, of course, ever claimed that it did. But, not content to refute a charge that no one has made, Lasky goes much further. He claims in effect that F.D.R., J.F.K. and L.B.J. all were much bigger crooks than Nixon. They were not portrayed in the press as such, in Lasky's view, only because biased reporters admired the three Democrats...
...lecture on Empedocles (Durrell is an intellectual name-dropper). He loves sudden transportations over centuries. One afternoon the bus comes upon a serenely classical car crash: "The occupant of the sports car was a handsome blond youth, and he was lying back in his seat as if replete with content, with sunlight, with wine. The expression on his face was one of benign calm, of beatitude...But the little man whose stethoscope was planted inside his blue shirt over the heart was...making the traditional grimace of doctors the world over...
...circumstances and Witteveen, in about that order. The Fund is a giant institution: 131 member countries, substantially all of the non-Communist world; 20 executive directors representing geographic blocs; a Washington headquarters outfitted with teak-paneled walls and leather-tufted elevators. Yet for almost three decades, it was content to monitor the system of fixed exchange rates of member countries. Among other things, it put up short-term cash that nations could use to buy or sell their own currencies, keeping the values within the narrow band specified by IMF rules, and gave its approval-usually grudgingly-for devaluations...