Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life (slogan: "be hip, be sharp, be bop!"). Its feverish practitioners like to wear berets, goatees and green-tinted horn-rimmed glasses, talk about their "interesting new sounds." The high priest is Dizzy, 30, a South Carolina boy whose rapid-fire, scattershot talk has about the same pace-and content-as his music. Whether he, an obscure Manhattan pianist named Thelonius Monk or Saxophonist Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker invented bebop is a matter of learned dispute among beboppers...
...have not been concerned with diagnosis or remedies. From these editorials conclusions are now to be drawn; these conclusions, in turn, will form the basis for recommendations. In order to make clear the context within which both conclusions and recommendations are to be understood, "Looking Backward" will summarize the content of the previous editorials...
Even when the characters think back upon their own lives, or when the author condenses their experience in brief little biographies, the content of their doing is still war-war on the streets and at the parties, the wisecracks whining like rifle shots, the love affairs like ambushes...
Producer Sam Goldwyn had his say in the Screenwriter: "What bothers me deeply is why the practitioners of the art have failed, on the whole, to become truly creative artists but rather have been content, in the main, to remain little more than glassblowers, huffing and puffing and blowing up slender ideas-their own or others' -into some sort of shape for the screen. What has happened to fresh; honest, vital, original writing for the screen...
...called at the end of nine holes when wind and darkness reduced visibility to almost nothing. An attempt to finish the match last week was also postponed because of heavy rains. Captain Sam Savidge last night revealed that the team would probably forget the whole thing, and be content with the results of today's game...