Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time creating masterpieces. I could never believe they took themselves so seriously") or more conscious of creating the mystique of an artist around him ("I hate that. It's all bull shit"). Instead, he has watched his newer songs reach heights of popularity on the charts and is content, at last, to enjoy the fruits of his not-too-arduous labors...
...valuable new book Called The Future of Imprisonment (University of Chicago Press). Morris believes that if "the hypocrisy" of rehabilitation as a purpose of imprisonment were set aside, the prison culture would be better off. "Probably the majority of prisoners, like the majority outside the walls, are content themselves as they are. Yet this does not mean that treatment programs need to be abandoned," says Morris. Prisons do contain a "disproportionate number of the undereducated, vocationally handicapped and psychologically disturbed," and for them various kinds of therapy or training should be available. Said the President last week: "While the problem...
...content to duel Hugh Hefner on the newsstands, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione seems determined to outdo the Playboy prince in the real estate department too. Guccione has paid more than $1 million in cash for the 40-room Manhattan mansion that once belonged to Financier Jeremiah Milbank, and he is preparing to spend another $1 million or so to have it "all redone in Italian Renaissance, very classical and simple." Besides a Roman-bath swimming pool and quarters for nine live-in servants, Guccione's digs will also feature accommodations for visiting Penthouse pets, but with some differences from...
...principality. Her own zoo used to prowl the palace in Monaco; one unfortunate nanny was pinned to the floor on arrival by a Rhodesian ridgeback. A baby lion playfully snapped at the heels of visiting celebrities until finally banished. "It was smelly," says Grace. Now Caroline is content with a couple of horses and her Yorkie, Tif-Tif; they are the safe kind of pet that a mother loves. But Caroline is only biding her time. As she suddenly informed Grace in the middle of a family spat, "I can fool you, Mother, I can fool you any time...
...this reason, DuBois was not unhappy at Harvard. His stay at Fisk had made him content to fraternize with his own race, in isolation from whites, a situation which he thought might not have satisfied him if he had come directly from Great Barrington. As it was he was interested only in the University's libraries and the tutelage of its teachers. For his social life he depended primarily upon the black community of Boston...