Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Davies finally suggests is the Beatles' isolation and boredom. Ringo is the most content, living a suburban, intensely domestic life in a house full of gadgets, including six TV sets. Paul roams restlessly through the youthful London underground, where artists and the remaining hippies overlap. George Harrison searched desperately for his own thing, seems to have found it briefly in Indian music and mysticism. Since Davies' book went into type John has left his wife and son for the Japanese artist Yoko Ono, and has put his suburban house up for sale. John trims away friends, will...
Dayton heirs were far from content...
Mystical Dream. Crane was also a serious writer whose only compulsion was to portray life honestly. At his best, he wrote a bold, uncluttered, staccato prose that, like the young Hemingway's, eventually changed both the rhythm and content of American fiction. At the core of that achievement was The Red Badge of Courage, that wholly intuitive, almost mystical dream of war dredged up from his subconscious when he was only...
...joining her husband on the campaign trail, although she is "a member of the white-knuckle club where flying is concerned." She confesses that she is too tense to concentrate on in-flight movies. Her nervousness extends to her husband's public appearances, at which she is generally content to smile. When reporters recently asked Judy how she felt about the possibility of becoming Second Lady of the U.S., she ventured: "I think it would be very nice...
...year-old Ladies' Home Journal long considered itself "the magazine women believe in." It carefully mixed the traditional recipe-and-fashion fare with a more sophisticated content (John Gunther on politics, Margaret Mead on sex). Nonetheless, in its perennial duel with McC all's (circ. 8,500,000) for leadership of the women's field, the Journal (circ. 6,800,000) has been losing believers. Last week, as part of its radical retrenchment policies, the venerable Curtis Publishing Co. sold off the Journal, along with the household-decorating monthly American Home. The buyer: Downe Communications...