Word: contentedness
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A team contented with its own performance isn't likely to improve; Harvard hasn't fallen into that trap. Billy Cleary and his players satisfied everyone's expectations but their own this season. And that's a good sign for next year.
There are many bus-taking nations represented here - Austria, for example, where buses are contented and well behaved - but the Olympic delegations from these nations are made up of big shots who ride in limousines in their homelands, and they no longer know how to smile at a bus that...
But he adds only about a fourth of Harvard's employees are unhappy in their jobs, and more than half are contented. Wickenden says job dissatisfaction is the least frequently cited reason for leaving jobs at the Ed School.
Though Stoller insists that only a few rare individuals may achieve excitement without any traces of hostility, he is not entirely pessimistic: many contented people, he allows, have clearly been able to outweigh hostility with affection and a capacity for closeness.
Soprano Leontyne Price brought a hush to the crowd with Verdi's Pace, Pace, Mio Dio, and then the guests began to file slowly out of the tent. Like a contented preacher, White House Aide Hamilton Jordan stood at the exit, shaking hands and clasping shoulders. "Begin for President...