Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cyril's "relics are circular," and his undisguised highest obligation has become the gratification of his own senses. He and his beautiful wife, Fiona, cannot be content with each other alone. Instead they require the complementary presence and attention of Hugh and Catherine if their "successful" marriage is to go on working...
...vision, because it is uncanny and so much depends on our willingness to accept its terms, proves a dangerous basis for the novel: style outpaces content until even Cyril's pleasure principle is violated--inadvertently. So one finally believes that John Hawkes has the over-fat soul of a child. No matter how precocious, he is unable or unwilling to match his obvious talent with any sort of serious moral statement. Instead, Hawkes has cast himself (and his book) into a state of unresolved fantastic formalism...
...P.H.S. panel headed by Dr. Daniel Horn reported evidence of surprisingly high monoxide levels in smoke-filled rooms. The acceptable maximum in most industrial situations is 50 parts of carbon monoxide to 1,000,000 parts of air. A roomful of cigarette smokers, investigators found, raise the carbon monoxide content to between 20 and 80 p.p.m...
...stock market. During his tenure, he pared services, cut the staff from 536 to some 420, managed to reduce last year's anticipated $1.8 million deficit to about $800,000. Hightower survived a strike by museum employees with honor, ultimately signing a contract that left both sides content...
People seemed to be content Fifty dollars paid the rent Freaks were in a circus tent Those were the days...