Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In short, an atmosphere was building in which it would be made difficult, rather than easy, for a prisoner to refuse to go home. Churchill didn't seem to mind. Just how the U.S. feels has not yet been made clear. It did not reject the Red proposals out...
When not doing research or conversing with friends, Jakobson usually retreats to an overstuffed chair with a book of poetry or a portfolio of primitive art reproductions. Although he occasionally spends an evening writing or chucking through a Marx Brothers movie, he feels most contented with his research. Jakobson, an...
In 1947 he and Louis Coxe wrote the first draft of Billy Budd. Neither remembers who first suggested it since both had specialized in Melville as undergraduates. After the Experimental Theatre produced the play in '49, they rewrote it for an interested Broadway producer. "We did it in six days...
After two years of living and working in Southern California (for the Ford Foundation). ex-Chancellor Robert Hutchins of the University of Chicago had begun to feel that he was not the same old Hutchins: he was suffering from an "intellectual deterioration" that suggested itself by "a kind of involuntary...
Contented Trader. The 1953 version of the White Sox is Richards' idea of what a ball club should be: hustling, bustling and fiery. It lacks heavyweight hitting, but will try to make up for it by defensive skill, tight pitching, and speed on the base paths. Richards was more...