Word: contentedness
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Since Kingsley Amis is an amiable satirist, Jim Dixon grins and bears the fact that he has attained status without achieving size. At worst, his is the venom of a reasonably contented rattlesnake. Under pressure, Dixon retreats to the practical joke as readily as Walter Mitty did to the hero...
Everyone is too contented down in Washington, and nothing much will be accomplished until someone gets angry. In the field of civil rights, for example, the failure to press for early action has virtually assured the South of no action this session. Barring a violent fight in the Senate, and...
Larry Sears, playing his first varsity test of any consequence, came through at third singles in fine style to topple Guise Potter, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Potter, a few weeks previous, had defeated Miami's highly ranked Dave Harum, in Presbyterian's 5-4 upset of the Hurricanes...
The most efficient way yet devised of laying in a laugh track is by a machine invented and operated by a former network engineer. His clients (three shows a week) and the whole industry are so furtive about canned laughter that he will discuss it only anonymously. To operate his...
The President's actions in lessening the tensions and hatreds built up around the integration controversy have so far been most often lip-service. Presented with numerous opportunities to state a position designed to cool the passions of the parties involved in the dispute, he has contented himself with well...