Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...content is accurate but imbalanced, Freed said, as indicated by the fact that only two New York Times correspondents cover all of South America while three correspondents cover Paris alone...
...Boston Globe syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman recently wrote in an article about the late Hubert Humphrey that "It's ultimately as difficult to be a totally content person in an unjust society as it is to enjoy a banquet surrounded by starving people." It is difficult to believe that Jimmy Carter is not content in his way or that Jerry Brown isn't content in his world of Zen Buddhism and E.F. ("Small is Beautiful") Schumacher quotations, but it may well be true that Gary Hart is the only one among the prospective 1980 Democratic hopefuls who is discontented...
...task, then, was to free language from its weight of inherited content, in the hope of freeing life itself. Chance, ambiguity, insult, nonsense, anything would serve, if it promised to break the crust. Above all, there was irony: the indifference of Duchamp, -the attacks on the social jugular perpetrated by German Dadaists like George Grosz and John Heartfield, and Picabia's drawings, which make mock of the cult of the machine. When this battery of anarchic techniques moved to Paris in the '20s, colliding with a long but temporarily dormant tradition of romanticism, surrealism was the result...
Walters, who for five years taught a course in the College called "Drugs and Adolescence," said that despite a myth that certain varieties of marijuana are much stronger than others, the natural plant varies only a little in THC content...
Lasch's book does falter in its line of argument occasionally, but it is, on the whole, an impressive synthetic sociological treatment of a complex and important subject. Lasch cuts a wide swath through the popular literature in the social sciences, even if he almost totally denigrates its content. Haven in a Heartless World is a provocative discussion of the problems in the social science establishment which spews forth pop psychology, and in the family lives of the millions of Americans...