Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Setting the Switches. Somewhere in the unhappy middle is craggy Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Anxious not to lend further credence to the charge, popular in Britain, that he is an inflexible old nationalist bent on sabotaging the peace, Adenauer is content to let his friend De Gaulle impede the headlong rush to the summit. Accepting De Gaulle's spring timing, Adenauer suggested that early rather than late spring would be better in order to keep the summit from becoming involved in next year's U.S. election...
...calculating of styles. Kandinsky's early work, swirling with pure color and vivid with strong brushwork, strikes me as his most successful. When he paints flat colors enclosed in rigid outlines floating against a monochromatic background, them my dissatisfaction with the picture equals his lack of attachment to its content...
Under the Fifth Republic, French foreign policy--except in the colonial field--has been more concerned with form than with content. Charlemagne, having decided that loose talk of France as a second-rate power had gone far enough, served notice that henceforth France would be heard from in Western councils. France has been heard from, sure enough, but it has had distressingly little...
Ardent Amateurs. If Stevenson is content to wait, legions of his admirers are willing to put their votes-and their campaign money-into cold storage, and wait too. "His followers woo him," says a top Utah politician. "He doesn't woo his followers. You can't say that about any of the others." This complicates the task of the active candidates both in primaries and in backroom maneuvering, and increases the possibility of a stalemated convention. Stevenson could easily end the strain by endorsing another candidate, but he has not, and in that state of affairs his followers...
...Stewart, Professor Smith was studying the hibernating larvae of woodboring beetles (Melandrya striata), trying to isolate the enzymes that digest the cellulose on which the insects live. But when he ground up the larvae and analyzed the juice, he was surprised to find a considerable glycerol content. Since the active summer larvae do not contain glycerol, he guessed that the larvae possessed a mechanism that reacted to cold by producing glycerol to keep their tissues from freezing in the Minnesota winters...