Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot afford to be silent again while these efforts go forward. Nor can we content ourselves with hasty, last-ditch efforts to defeat misguided government initiatives," he said...
...primary task force conclusions that Rosovsky mentions is the need for Harvard "to reformulate the non-concentration portion of our curriculum" by both "specifying the content (of that education) and constructing the machinery to implement...
...compared the literature they hold in high esteem with "the stuff you read in The New Yorker." He said the prevailing literary opinion is "tradition bound," concerned more with content and theme than style, technique, and innovative ways of telling the story...
...that this stuff is not written in English. It is not written at all. It is not to be read--or rather it is not only to be read...His writing is not about something; it is that something itself." Both artists create this inseparable unity of form and content, but Beckett, unlike Joyce, does not orchestrate words into musical patterns so that literal sense is multiplied. His tragic clowns are immediate and comic. They have only to be seen and heard to be enjoyed...
...there has been even more issue content in this election than these policy differences. By far, the central issue in 1976 is Gerald Ford's record. Ford has invited a referendum on his performance, and Carter has hammered away against it. The media has criticized these exchanges as unsubstantive, unspecific, and backward-looking, and has chided the candidates for not providing us with "visions" and "dreams" of the future. However, the kinds of issues which work best in our system--and which, therefore, have dominated our elections historically--are not those that chart the future but those that assess...