Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tutoring schools have been out of existence for so many years that the true native of their invidiousness may by now have been forgotten. The Administration may be content to point to the rule against their use and take no action until a stroke of chance unveils some student who has been taking the "easy way out." If this attitude is adopted, the tutoring school may make secure the foothold which it has regained. The small sector of the student body which has succumbed to the lure of the harpies can befoul the whole College, and the time for opposing...
...time the book is finished, the reader has forgotten all but a few of them. Of the 60 sons that Perling writes about, only John Quincy Adams, a President's son and a President himself, is apt to be remembered long. Presidents' Sons is oddly content with the simple act of exhuming its subjects. They are neither understood nor studied; the only interesting possibility (the effect of their fathers' eminence on their personalities) is not even explored. Readers will learn that...
Orchids and huzzahs. . . . Here is reviewing raised to a brilliant level on a par with its brilliant subject. In fact, all of your cover articles . . . are, I think, model "profiles" which students of journalism as well as the lay reader should note as encyclopedic in content, human in approach, and definitive as history...
Since the Eagles have demonstrated their ability to stop the fast break style of play in downing St. Anselm and almost matching Rhode Island State, two of the smoother flirehorse units in the country, coach Barclay probably will be content to use a more conservative system against Letvinchuk, O'Brien, and Company...
Although the content of the show strikes frequent depths of trite polemic, the zealousness of the 300-odd performers, many traveling over the globe for MRA, more than lends an excitement sufficient in itself to justify the expenditure of an evening and to pose the pressing question of what MRA will mean given real momentum. The idealistic drive of this movement finds rare equal at the present moment. In utter seriousness the show's participants call themselves a "task force." They feel themselves engaged in a crusade to save civilization. MRA's overriding interest rests not in its feverish adherents...