Word: contentedness
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Barro's decision to stay at Harvard--which he attributed to the quality of his colleagues and students--had seemed a triumph for Harvard's egalitarian salary system. With above-average but relatively equal wages, the University said it could keep a stable of contented academics without entering bidding wars...
He is a father of three, a contented grandfather and an avid fly-fisher.
His 80th-birthday celebration was televised. His wife Barbara stayed close. Friends and luminaries from across the generations paid their respects. Bruce Springsteen showed up, singing Angel Eyes as one Jersey boy to another. Bob Dylan performed his own song, Restless Farewell, and said, looking down from the stage at...
In the chintzy $100-a-night hotel decor of Pforzheimer's dining hall, six bands brilliantly performed for a crowd of more than 100 contented students and passersby. Did the considerable turnout signal a trend of greater student awareness of the campus' creative music offerings? The Pforzheimer show was a...
Of course, the movies started driving toward all this long before the Clintons came along. In Frank Capra's 1948 State of the Union, Spencer Tracy plays a straight-talking businessman having an affair with Angela Lansbury. A newspaper magnate and political kingmaker, Lansbury decides to push Tracy into a...