Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that dining room to make any attempt at communication inappropriate and completely out of the question. Besides, nobody seemed interested in talking to anyone else. People looked uneasy whenever the music stopped. That was a signal to start talking, and that was what everyone feared most. People were content to dance their hearts out impersonally, but not to reveal their hearts in a personal conversation...
...NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY is one of the tensest, toughest thrillers anyone could ask for. But Director Hubert Cornfield isn't content to stop there; he creates a surreal seminar in the poetics of violence. The small cast is uniformly good, and Marlon Brando is back in great form playing a hipster-hood...
...induce the opposite effect: the more programs strive to be with it, the farther they veer from recognizable life. The view of youth as a vast criminal conspiracy relieved only by Mod Squad's undercover trio is hardly building bridges over the generation gap. Yet TV seems content to maintain the myth-until a new one comes along...
...Sunday evening Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. With equal regularity, the brothers threaten to quit. Last week, after a prolonged dispute over several parts of the March 9 program, CBS bounced the entire show and substituted a two-month-old rerun. The network claimed that the problem was not controversial content but the fact that the tape had not been presented in time for a Friday screening for affiliated stations...
...that they seem to have "'irregular' grading, 'unqualified' sectionmen, and 'activist' sections." This, to you, is not "an adequate explanation" for questioning the courses' academic standards. Yet, a little earlier in the year part of your main argument against ROTC was that the instructors were not qualified, the course content and grading system as well as personnel were not controlled by the University. Isn't this what Roger Brown has said about Soc Rel 148-9? That the department has little knowledge of or control over content, grading, and personnel...