Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relatively few observers-at least of its totality. The path of complete blackout crossed the most sparsely inhabited wastes of Asia and North America, favoring only Canada's southeasternmost provinces before crossing the Atlantic to fizzle out at sunset near the Azores. Most big-city dwellers had to content themselves with partial obscuration: 88% in Montreal, 80% in New York and 40% in Miami...
Most of the songs fall neatly into types. "Keep on Rollin" is pure Little Richard in tone, but moves beyond him finally. Rod Argent's piano opening and solo are both boogie-oriented, but emphasize notes, where Little Richard was content simply to pound chords. This is an Argent-Chris White composition, and as such stresses keyboards...
Argent's tendency to lighten everything they do has lessened their importance. They are one of the five best unknown rock bands in creation by choice. They seem content to play in the rave-up mainstream of English rock: albums of two rave-ups, mediocre blues, and a couple of tunes to acknowledge roots in R and B. Argent's strong point is simply that they do what they do so well with the assistance of one of rock's finer keyboard players in the tradition established by Steve Winwood. It's not a taxing, or particularly innovative music...
Actually, as Wein soon realized, what he could do was to move down the coast a bit and make New York the Bayreuth of jazz. In Rhode Island, he says, "they were never interested in the artistic content of the festival, only how much money it would bring in. What we found out when we moved to New York was that the world was listening, if Rhode Island wasn...
Sociologists and students of religion will be studying and arguing over the survey's findings (and some of its admitted inconsistencies) for years. Already the study seems to give the lie to one cherished American cliché-that sincerity, not content, is the test of belief. If the findings successfully stand up to rigorous examination, modern sociology will have demonstrated what traditional Christian thinkers have long contended: that the fruits of misbelief may be harmful social attitudes...