Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tsuga's Children works well as an adventure fantasy. But the author is not content with writing a rousing tale. He must moralize from Rousseau's creaky premise that culture corrupts mankind. His hunter-gatherers live in an idealized balance with nature; the Chigai are brutal villains because they keep animals as prisoners to be eaten. There are echoes here of William Golding's The Inheritors, in which Homo sapiens wipes out the noble Neanderthal. Golding's text was suited for the grim '50s. Williams' happier ending is blended for the granola...
...professor underscored this sentiment when he told the Faculty that the chief virtue of the motion it voted on was that it was "content-free...
...President, who had won election by a bare majority and was only three months in office, had staked his popularity and the reputation of his young Administration on his energy package. Most members of Congress, wary of public reaction, were content to let Carter take the lead on the issue, but some Democratic Senators voiced approval. Observed Lloyd Bentsen of Texas: "The President is doing what has to be done. He has proposed a broad national energy policy. It should be given a fair hearing, not nibbled to death...
...says Backe. The new chief executive, who is 44, seems a perfect choice for tandem harness with Paley. Brash Arthur Taylor had a homing instinct for the limelight; he could not be trusted to refrain from redecorating Paley's castle. But Backe is unassuming, efficient, extremely bright and content to be an inner-sanctum manager. "It isn't a matter of my letting Bill influence me," says he. "I do take his advice and we agree on most things." Backe cannot be called a CByes-man, adds one executive, "but he'd be insane...
...giant of cultural history. He is simply an ornamental artist and-compared with the Arab tile makers, or the French metalworkers of 1900-a limited and pedantic one. There is little resonance in his paintings. They reliably engage the eye without shifting the mind's gears. Their content of felt experience, beyond the sensation of color itself, is so slight that it hardly exists...