Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitter power struggle with the emerging Communist Party, which challenged the existence of Chiang Kai-shek's regime. Many in Chiang's Kuomintang Party were attempting to push China toward modernization and industrialization, the path taken by Japan the century before. Many others seemed content to take what they could from a peasantry long accustomed to abuse. Chiang's tragedy, according to Tuchman, was that he was incapable of making a decisive break with the past...
...content to call a leetle...
...published here in 1967: Time praised it as "counter-revolutionary" and middle-class, the same qualities that Prokosch attacks. What both reviewers, writing from politically antipodal positions, failed equally to understand is that Memories is a rich dialectical confrontation with the Cuban revolution. By viewing its form and content literally, by taking it as a straightforward piece of interior fiction. they missed its true meaning, which is: this is why there had to be a revolution in Cuba (and why there must be other revolutions everywhere...
...four weekly shows so far, the content has been somewhat less compelling than the style. Most successful segments: a film essay on Americans' fixation with auto demolition derbies; savage slashes by Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman at pharmaceutical hucksterism and the futility of "law-and-order"; a muckraking shocker by Author Paul Jacobs on the allegedly slipshod safety standards of the Atomic Energy Commission; and a sketch on romance, True Confessions-style...
...Tower of Babel is another story high, thanks to the fledgling audio cassette industry. No longer content to simply reel out taped renditions of a Rolling Stones goldie or a Bing Crosby oldie, the new versions of the handy cassettes are sounding out on everything from money management to marriage counseling, evangelical sermons to menopausal symptoms...