Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heard many from Blair from the time Harper's Chairman John Cowles Jr. put Blair in the publisher's seat in 1968. Blair wanted Harper's to reduce its circulation (currently 359,000) and cut the promotion budget for financial reasons. Morris insisted on continued innovative content aimed at expanding the circulation...
...order to solve the problem of didactic clarity-the effectiveness of the work in being correctly interpreted-Sontag simply denounces the interpretation of art as well as works of art which necessitate it. Bazin's doctrine of metaphysical suggestion in portraying "content" is a dead end, then, for radical formalism. Form itself must become the subject, the "content," continually renewing itself in order to transform outmoded consciousness. Duet for Cannibals attempts this, by taking up outmoded conventions and destroying them, each in turn. In "Against Interpretation" (1964) Sontag makes a case for interpreting interpretation (at this time in history...
...political content and intention of the students' acts were dismissed as "irrelevant." The context in which the CRR judged was not that of a modern university in its relations to the real world but rather of an idealized "academic community" founded upon archaic illusions and thus placed in unreal isolation...
...chemical composition or possible dangers of the phosphate-free brands are largely unknown. Most use sodium carbonate, which has a higher alkaline content than detergents and common soaps and could, if used improperly, damage eyes and mucous membranes. Since most laundry experts agree that phosphates clean best and brightest, the new brands could presage a return to the old tattletale-gray washes. Still, in only six months or so the phosphate-free products have captured 3% of the market. Says Hercules A. Segalas, a leading analyst of soap-industry stocks at William D. Witter, Inc.: "People figure they...
Nicholas Johnson, the dissenting commissioner, said the FCC's decision is "an unconstitutional action by a Federal agency aimed clearly at controlling the content of speech...