Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years these guys have been complaining about politicians who are all style and no content," one McCarthy aide grumbled last week. "Now at last they have a candidate who is real, who talks to the issues, and they run the other...
...point--a disruptive protest this Friday would be a bad idea. The October demonstration raised the questions of recruitment policy and University War complicity. Another disruptive demonstration would say nothing new on these complex issues and would work against their resolution in the Student-Faculty Advisory Council, sinking the content of the Dow debate in another wrangle over just and unjust punishments...
Most of their talks had racial significance, although the students did not usually realize this when they began discussing various issues. They learned, for example, that their views on Vietnam and lunar exploration had racially symbolic as well as literal content...
...theater as a preacher's pulpit, Miller sermonizes on his favorite themes: guilt, responsibility, and the way a man's identity is forged or warped by society's image of what he is or what he should be. In structure, though not in content, the central situation-the sibling rivalry of two brothers and their relationship to their father-somewhat resembles Miller's earlier successes, All My Sons and Death of a Salesman...
Snob Appeal. Though prices vary widely (37? for half a gallon in Chicago, 45? in New York), many bottled-water fans seem more concerned with such qualities as low sodium content (for heart patients) or fluoridation (bottlers generally offer water with or without). "Let's face it," says President George Schmitt of Chicago's Hinckley & Schmitt, "bottled water has a certain amount of snob appeal-and a health image." To bolster his appeal to gourmets, Schmitt employs a full-time home economist to advise housewives and conjure up recipes for everything from soup to marmalade...