Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst of all, Mr. Truman was losing out where his appeal had once been strongest. The man on the street was no longer content to admire him as just another "ordinary guy." From all over the country came a chorus of tired complaints: "He means well but he don't do well...
Such is the content of Son of the Moon. It is a novel of some passion and excitement, and the slow accumulation of brief scenes, following the pattern of Passage to India, is very nearly incompatible with such passion. Here & there the novel has a kind of Oriental power of hallucination: experiences blend and retreat; characters dissolve; a spell is cast by the very remoteness of the happenings so precisely described. At such moments the novel seems a blend of several books, about an India that seems partly familiar and partly a new world of still formless action...
...Harvard Glee Club was at its best in voice and control for the occasion. Before the main event Dr. Koussevitzky and orchestra gave their customarily rigid performance of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, the first and last movements of which remain to this critic deserts of brisk but avid content...
...aggressiveness that paid off at the scorer's table for the Big Green. After Hauptfuhrer opened the content with at tricky two-pointer, Dartmouth put on the pressure and piled up a 16 to 3 lead in seven minutes of play. By the end of the period, the score stood...
...researchers, under the direction of Senior Editor Content Peckham and five departmental chief researchers, form the next circle. They spend Thursday afternoon and Friday digging up material available in TIME'S morgue, in other libraries; they interview New York sources of information...