Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...renewal and redefinition of the Atlantic partnership, Henry Kissinger last week finally inaugurated the Nixon Administration's belated "Year of Europe." Like that celebrated phrase, the address that the President's foreign policy adviser delivered at the annual Associated Press luncheon in Manhattan was vague on content but vehement in its promise of a continued U.S. commitment. Though "the era that was shaped by decisions of a generation ago is ending," he said, the U.S.-European partnership could survive. By the time the President begins his European tour in the fall, Kissinger promised, "we will have worked...
...Lombardi was very much in demand. Today he ekes out a meager living by teaching at the University of Saigon (salary: $42 per week) and writing an occasional magazine story. Fluent in eleven languages, a former Oxford lecturer who also taught at Seton Hall and Colorado State, Lombardi is content in Saigon. "There's a feeling of complete freedom here," he says. "A man with a little money in his pocket can do anything-smoke opium, sleep with three girls, meet interesting people. The subtle charm of Saigon is not to be denied...
...urge for a clean environment has complicated matters even further. Clean-air laws, for instance, forbid the burning of oil and coal with high sulfur content. As a result, much available domestic fuel cannot be used in many localities. Insisting on environmental safeguards, groups have delayed such projects as the Alaska pipeline and nuclear power plants, further limiting the development of domestic energy sources...
...mirrored in the play came to an end with that event. Implicit in the play is a great divide between superiors and inferiors, patricians and plebeians. However they err, the patricians are sanctified by wealth, birth and breeding. Whether they are openly envious or openly critical, the plebeians are content or resigned to being maids, manicurists or powder-room attendants. From the vantage point of 1973, one of the fascinations of The Women is that it is positively class-ridden...
...should debate issues solely on their merits without reflecting the political splits of the sixties," he said. "There is obviously a political content to many questions that the Faculty considers, but that should be secondary...