Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doors unlocked, a crackling fire to warm by. gazing at the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire, which fill my windows-a view broken only by an occasional farmhouse-I read your article about Americans on the move (by kerosene lamp) with much amusement. I am a quite content "refugee...
...sculpture as a solid, weighty or highly modulated object. Her selections seem meant to prove that in the past decade sculpture has advanced historically by denying its own material essence. Moreover, "with a few exceptions," she declares, "present-day sculpture has generally rejected anthropomorphic, transcendental, nostalgic and metaphysical content." If sculptors do not conform to these norms of up-to-dateness, they do not get through the Whitney door...
...regulations require cable-TV franchise holders to make these public channels available on a first-come, first-served, nondiscriminatory basis. The limits on what is shown are, in what is still a new field, not clearly defined; one government guideline forbids a cable company to censor public-access program content, while another makes the company potentially liable for program content...
...said examining economic growth figures, without considering the content of that growth, sets economists off in the wrong direction...
Richard C. Lewontin '50, Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and Stephen J. Gould, professor of Biology, have guaranteed any student who turns in a ten page paper at least a B, while longer papers have been graded B or above, based on content. Gould says he and Lewontin have always wanted to give the course credit/non-credit, but in that case it could not be offered within...