Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is widespread grumbling about the corruption, but otherwise Hungarians seem generally content with a system that provides them with a bit more freedom and a few more luxuries than their East bloc neighbors enjoy. This is one reason why Hungary has no dissidents to speak of. Writers and artists practice a kind of self-censorship, aware that the Kádár regime allows them about as much freedom as they can reasonably expect. Many Hungarians worry about their political future. Says one writer: "Sometimes when I wake up pessimistic in the morning, I wonder what will happen...
...ourselves as far as noise. Around 5 p.m. we'd all pile into a car, go down to the highway somewhere and eat dinner. Then a lot of the guys who were 17 and 18 would go into town and try to sneak into bars. But I was usually content just to sit around and bullshit; and crash out around nine...
AMAJOR PROBLEM with the new Core curriculum is the attempt by its authors to delineate carefully the structure and content of courses to be designated as "core courses." Whether Faculty members will be willing to teach the types of courses outlined in the report is not clear; the Core proposal might well set up the type of lecture courses that no one likes to teach, and no one likes to take...
Smith says, "People spent a lot of time at dinner talking about the content of their work, about what interested them in it, not about its quantity. If you were committed to the work, to your place in it, and to getting an education, Radcliffe was the place to live...
...film industry, cinematographer Masini avoids using flashy camera angles and other distracting legerdemain with the lens. Masini instead unobtrusively records the countryside, focusing on the lush greenery of a Sardinian forest or the evanescent ambers of a pasture at dawn. And at several points in the film, Masini is content to allow events to speak for themselves, permitting the actors to move in and out of the picture while the camera remains fixed in one place. In this way the cinematographer quietly succeeds in imbuing the visual dimension of Padre, Padrone with the same eloquent austerity of style that marks...