Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosenbloom said yesterday that he had been misquoted and that he had not been sure of the exact content of the motion...
...first it seemed to me that the collaborators in this commemoration were men who would have been content with Agee's shoelace instead of his vision, who were more content to scavenge after genius than to put on their arrogance boots and go tramping after it themselves. My reaction was testimony only to the expectation which I brought to The Harvard Advocate February 1972: I wanted Agee back, the editors after all had promised him. Expectations and promises aside, The Advocate Commemoration is an example of the sentimentality and impossibility of resurrection, as much as it is a cherishing...
...incongruity of these episodes' content with America's usual television fare creates a major source of humor, but television is as much Shapiro's vehicle as his target. The romanticization of violence and the artificiality of sexuality portrayed on television are properly depicted as symptoms of broader and more deeply rooted individual and social pathologies...
Even while it was going on, the Long March lay on the edge of myth. No one has done much to reduce its mythic content. In her own book called The Long March, Simone de Beauvoir made it an elaborate Gallic metaphor for revolution, while André Malraux (who got Mao to tell him about it in 1965) used it, in his non-biography An-timemoires, mostly as an excuse for some very elegant prose. Dick Wilson, an editor of the Singapore Straits Times, has modestly tried to assemble a straightforward account based on Chinese sources, scrupulously avoiding conjecture...
...more so than priestly resignations-is the decline in vocations, Greeley emphasized. He suggested a separate church commission to explore the problem. In the past, many vocations were born of the personal enthusiasm that priests were able to convey to younger men. Now, though many priests still seem comparatively content, they are reluctant to recommend the priesthood so long as the vocation has such an "uncertain future...