Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most significant films ever made, you know something is amiss. Similarly when the press does chorus kicks for James Simon Kunen. Or when Pauline Kael hails Wild in the Streets. Scorecards of who likes what are less important when dealing with art works with little contemporary social content. Time thinks Persona is a masterpiece, but doesn't know why and it doesn't matter. But when film is discussed as the pleading voice of youth (or as sociology) the lines are clearly drawn. There are some statements and some people that the bourgeois press cannot embrace...
...overheated economy, the compromise can hardly be considered a victory for the Administration. The extension will bring in $5.6 billion. The House-approved Administration bill, which would continue the levy at 5% for an additional six months starting Jan. 1, would bring in $7.6 billion. Still, the Administration seemed content with two-thirds of a loaf. It came perilously close to getting nothing...
...most frightful failures and the periods of complete prostration that descend on official Soviet literature are due, I am firmly convinced, to the imposition on it by dictatorial means of "Socialist Realism," and in particular of the doctrine of the "Party content" of literature...
...EXPERIENCE: A tourist need no longer content himself with enjoying what he sees. He can give himself a feeling of really using his time by taking pictures. It is easy to understand why love is so vulnerable to competition if we reflect that we are spending time on only one person and cannot even take photographs of the occasion...
...social intercourse. One devotes oneself to the simultaneous consumption of food and people. To be the only guests to dinner is normally considered less flattering than to be invited with many others, perhaps because it suggests that your time is at such a low price that you are content to meet a couple of people at a time...