Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Upper-class blacks, surveys indicate, are largely content with life in Soweto. Those less well off are not, and their discontent increases as their age goes down. Ominously, more than 55% of Sowetoians are under...
...said were healthy developments are the ones that appear to be most lacking in today's pre-professional education circles. The other directed youth, according to Reisman, et al., asks more of a career than conventional status and pecuniary requirements, questions ways of going about things and is not content to follow blindly the ways of the past; and is more attuned to social concerns of people than towards personal illusions of grandeur and reward...
Some of Lardner's best work appeared as a kind of joshing reminiscence, in which amiable lies were the form and truths of varying bitterness were the content. In What I Ought to of Learnt in School, published in the American Magazine in 1923, the writer reports bleakly of his schooling in Niles, Mich.: "Well I don't know how it is now, but in those times practally all the teachers in high school was members of the fair sex. Some of them was charter members." That throwaway second sentence, evoking algebra-spouting harpies of deadly rectitude, would...
...Chinese language movies, Boy Scout activities, League of Women Voters shows, block parties and a Bulgarian hour. (Only twelve of those hours went to Midnight Blue when it was on.) New York State law specifically states that cable companies carrying public-access broadcasts shall have no say in program content and absolves them from all liability for such content, including obscenity. But the FCC regulations, while also barring content control, provide that cable companies "shall establish rules ... prohibiting the presentation of ... obscene or indecent matter." In addition, New York City, which has the power to franchise further cable expansion, says...
Still Hanoi seems to be saying it is content for the present to deal gently with the church. Though one Vatican spokesman noted that "there is a long road ahead before we can achieve diplomatic recognition and an exchange of envoys," it is generally agreed that the elevation of Hanoi's archbishop to cardinal is tantamount to Vatican recognition of a united and Communist-controlled Viet...