Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bitter quarrels and mutual hatreds that rack the Middle East. Moreover, they know full well that the Arabs still depend for much of their income on Western oil companies. Since they have neither the money nor the need for that much oil, the Russians have so far been content to leave the Western oil companies alone...
...James Richman's performance of the Mendelssohn Concerto in G Minor lacked the necessary technical expertise." On the contrary, this is what it had above all else. Mr. Richman also showed a fine intellectual understanding of the piece; all that I found lacking was a sensitivity to its musical content...
Bentinck-Smith also argued that television is an exceptional medium, relying too much on entertainment content. "It tends to over-dramatize events and take them out of the realm of quiet discussion," he stated. "Participants get in front of the camera and become camera conscious." These generalizations not only underestimate the potentials of television, they insult the production staff at WGBH and the many distinguished members of last Thursday's panel...
...surplus or deficit of not much more than $1 billion yearly. As soon as it does that, the gold problem will disappear. "Then," says Germany's top banker, Emminger, "the U.S. can do whatever it wishes about the gold price. Then everyone, or almost everyone, will be quite content to hold onto his dollars. There is no advantage in holding onto the metal once you become convinced that the dollar will truly hold its value...
...focus by an author who mistakes his vices for his virtues. Almost as if to cover up the honest banality of his basic theme, Orlovitz, 49, has laid on the obscurantism of a great prose experiment. He has succeeded only in substituting conventions of technique for conventions of content...