Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps, are the obsequious little men who run Denmark's fleshier kiosks and porno stores-and who are now trying to unload for $8.50 a reel skin flicks that last year sold for $40. "The legalization is killing business," says one, "and you have to be content with what you can sell of decent magazines...
...attachment of this statement to a fund-raising appeal rests presumably with the chairman and council of the Graduate Society, but also with ex-officio councillors Pusey, Ford, Price and Elder. Alumni who respond to the appeal should take pains to repudiate both the inappropriate political maneuvering, and the content of the statement with which, by virtue of their contribution, they would otherwise be associated. Sarah Kafatou...
This picture can be misleading; while significant, it still involves only a minority. The yearning for "meaningful" careers (in the current cliche) is largely confined to the upper-middle-class white students. The majority of students remain reasonably content with traditional careers. In general, the children of blue-collar workers and Negro students strive to attain the very jobs that many privileged whites disdain. Most students have no special quarrel with the profit motive, and an estimated 30% of all graduates go into business. As a senior at Columbia University puts it: "I think it's great that...
...through "medicare, denticare, judicare, menticare and ped-icare." And then Actor Rock Hunter will run for the presidency by advocating "the greatest welfare program of them all." From coast to coast, Hunter will thunder: "Do you realize that two-thirds of our nation goes to bed each night ill-content, underloved and alone?" Hunter's answer: "Sexicare...
Perhaps from disdain, perhaps from a remove of age and philosophy, Jancso never ties his story or his sympathies to any main character. To him, all the high cheekbones and fierce mustaches, all the tired, tragic faces are one. The viewer must be content (or disturbed) with a vision trained on people but not on persons. Though Jancso is sometimes eclectic, he borrows only from the best, from the wintry compositions of Ingmar Bergman or from Goya's acid Disasters of War. At his most original, the director resembles neither film maker nor painter. In his own deep-dimensioned...