Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectual content of Playboy is at least on a par with the pretentiously overstated content of a TIME Essay. The prurient appeal of an overripe foldout is no worse than the peekaboo enticement of gossip about "People." The humor of a Playboy cartoon is often more sophisticated than the cleverness of TIMEse...
...somewhat unbalanced and negative appraisal of the present leaders. Yet it appears that the strengths of the leadership are now largely in the past and that future writings on China will have to face up to some of the basic shortcomings that have crept into the style and content of leadership as exercised by the present elite. One is hesitant to describe the events of the past few years (and especially mid-1966) as a dramatic turning point in Chinese Communist history. Yet these events suggest that the past virtues of cohesiveness and unity may have degenerated into the vices...
Harsh words trailed the Red Guards, who for seven months had enjoyed their own license to slander everyone in sight. Though it once cheered them on, the authoritative Maoist journal Red Flag now accused the young revolutionaries of having "begun to rest content with their past achievements" and to "chase after motorcycles, telephones and bicycles and seek a higher standard of living." They had erred also, said Red Flag, in attacking party cadres and thinking that the Cultural Revolution consisted only of "dismissing people from office," with the result that there was "no leader in a herd of dragons...
Moreover, Newhouse is getting a paper that has been making a name for itself. Energetic Vail has considerably improved the editorial content with imaginative local coverage and investigative reporting. Under his five-year-old regime, circulation has jumped 15%, putting the Plain Dealer closer to the afternoon Cleveland Press circulation...
...Karl Marx, others in the name of Christ. But not many try to espouse the ideals of both. One of the rare exceptions is England's New Left Catholics, a coterie of Cambridge-educated intellectuals who advocate a social revolution that is both Communist and Christian. Not content to condemn capitalism as a moral evil, they also denounce the British Labor Party as the tired-blood expression of a bourgeois working class. In their view, the church is equally obsolescent in structure and needs to be seriously reconstructed if it is to share in organizing the revolution...