Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lessness. Alvarez's book is written at a time and from a critical viewpoint that successfully demonstrate this Beckettian family of worlds in generation, and gives a sense of its underlying rhythms. For Beckett, the search for less--and finally for nothing--is the search for an art without content except itself...
...Israelis were content to let the Egyptians sit there while they concentrated their effort more than 300 miles away at the far end of Israel on the rolling Golan plain above the Sea of Galilee. Here, along a 60-mile front, the Syrians had massed nearly 1,000 tanks. And here the Israelis, forced to fight a simultaneous two-front war, decided to make their first major counterattack...
...visits to Paris, London and Bonn, Tanaka had been eager to show West Europeans that Japan is no longer content with its traditionally low diplomatic profile. As the world's second largest trading power, Japan wants to be involved in the shaping of new relationships between the European Economic Community and the U.S. But the Europeans were at best lukewarm toward Tanaka's visions of a "more balanced triangle." In Paris, the first stop on Tanaka's itinerary, Georges Pompidou agreed to send the Mona Lisa to Tokyo and to cooperate with Japan in a uranium enrichment...
...decades ago, Reserve Mining perfected its technique for economically extracting iron from a gray rock called taconite, which previously was considered to have too low an iron content for commercial mining and processing. Today the plant, producing 15% of the nation's iron ore, is a solid money-maker for its owners, Armco Steel Corp. and Republic Steel Corp. One reason for the profits: By dumping "tailings," or waste sand, into Lake Superior, the company saves some $25,000 a day over the costs of hauling them to disposal sites on land...
...gravest criticism of the commission is that it has focused upon the structure rather than the content of higher education. Kerr answers that the commission deliberately avoided such controversial areas as teaching and curriculum, and "tried to hold out for things that could be done." Even Alan Pifer, president of the Carnegie Corporation, which paid the commission's bills, has admitted to feeling "somewhat wistful" that the commission did not tackle the thorny problem of undergraduate liberal education. But he stresses that the commission's function was to provoke discussion and thought, not to provide a blueprint. Says...