Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genius. The values with which he dealt were not so much musical as human and emotional. It's a little misleading to think of him as merely a singer. What he attempted to do was to transcend the artifice of the song. Most singers are more or less content with the pleasantness of the artifice, and exploit it. An actor must never seem to be just a guy saying some lines he has memorized. When that happens, the result is ludicrous and the profession seems puerile...
...rather a continuation of the concept of education illustrated by student activities supporting civil rights. Students' recent social and political involvement has altered the traditional view of education as a preparation for life -- students are now assuming a more meaningful role in society and are no longer content to live in a cocoon. It is recognized that it is impossible to know and fulfill the responsibilities of freedom without first being allowed to make choices and exercise that freedom. Students are expected to make value judgments about the outside community and to affect it through responsible action. It is incongruous...
...world's greatest humanitarians, did not mention that for the past nine years he has served as honorary national chairman of the National Parkinson Foundation. He has been a staunch supporter in our continuing quest for the cause of, and cure of, Parkinson's disease. Not content with giving us his valuable time and talent, Bob has for a number of years given us an annual personal check for $10,000. When the big breakthrough comes through research on Parkinson's disease, as surely it will in the not too distant future, much of the credit...
...papers are not content with merely covering the news. They sponsor a host of outside activities, from art shows to concerts to baseball games. Nearly every paper employs staffers for special projects; Yomiuri has 150, double the number of its foreign news staff. Yomiuri owns a symphony orchestra and professional baseball team, the Tokyo Giants, as well as a kind of Disneyland East, called Yomiuriland...
...intellectual content of Uncle T's monologues is often meager. His thoughts are not going to be passed on from generation to generation. But who cares? You don't want to listen to John Kenneth Galbraith rap between cuts of the Nashville Street Band playing "Baby Please Don't Go" and Richard Berry playing "Yamma Yamma Pretty Mamma...