Word: contentedness
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It is Lewis Eliot, protagonist of the Strangers and Brothers series, with whom Snow is most often compared, for Snow admits that Eliot had his base in autobiography, even though much of him is invented. But it is not Eliot of whom I thought, talking with Snow, but rather Arthur...
"Living on the edge of the Bois," he wrote, "she found it gave her landscape enough: trees, the gleaming lake, and sometimes ice for skaters. She contented herself with nature's Parisian parsimony, taking from it what it gave: the themes for some exquisite works."
German-born Schoolmaster Kurt Hahn thought out his concept of a school while a student at Oxford's Magdalen College, where he watched tame deer browsing .spiritlessly in the park and saw an analogy with tame schoolboys. Turning to Plato's Republic for guidance, Hahn designed a stern...
In his months of presidential campaigning, Kennedy has perfected a set of rhetorical devices fully as clever as Nixon's. Most successful is his incessant portrayal of Republicans as a lot of fat, contented fellows sunk deep in club chairs, ignorant of the challenges we face, utterly unconcerned about social...
Instead of doing this, the filmmakers have contented themselves with a series of unnatural color effects, that are clearly derived from the color sequences of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, Part 2, but lack his incisive organization and satiric overtones.