Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have read every ballot in Mather House, and many of them have "Who cares? written by the question on parties," Bernstein said. "Everyone should be content to let this particular fight be fought at election time," he added...
...comparison probably also would not sit well with Will Sakas, director of the Freshman Arts Council's production of Camelot. Sakas, who proposed the show to the Council, loves the musical for its dramatic content: the tragic love story and struggle to create a civilization in the midst of the Dark Ages, Camelot is, in his opinion, "a very beautiful, very personal tragedy...
...artifice in order to satisfy our expectation of a final solution and our need for one as well? It is not at all clear, for the novel's realism is so intense that the conclusion is entirely unconvincing. We should suspect the patness of his solution but be content in our ignorance by acknowledging Lem's masterful ability to make the alien seem so familiar and the ordinary so frighteningly unknown...
Diesel may not be the way to go. Given the high aromatic content of diesel fuel and its propensity for creating particulates, chemical intuition suggests that it would be surprising if diesel exhaust did not contain appreciable amounts of first-rate carcinogens. As a professor of physical chemistry, I for one would like to see the medical studies precede deployment this time...
Similarly, newspapers, as they become chain owned, are largely content to take the cash and leave crusading to others. It thus becomes harder to fulminate about the power of the press: to defy a trend can be an exereise-of power-(and of responsibility); latching on to a trend is merely doing business...