Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SIXTIES ARE DEAD AND GONE but no one is content. Whenever the subject seems buried for good, some writer, film director, musician, or journalist feels compelled to dig it up for further dissection. The corpse is now mutilated beyond recognition...
Harrington says he believes that liberal reformism is "socialist in content" and that socialism is the "logical outgrowth of liberal consciousness." He has a great deal of faith in the capacity of a centralized bureacracy to deal with problems of distribution of wealth. If only we could re-order our priorities, he argues, and invest our energies and money in people rather than guns, we could move towards a just society...
...vaudeville anywhere else. And despite the pulpy content, the from is there, and the medium is the message...
...case with Pink Floyd's March 1973 release, Dark Side of the Moon, which won them a horde of new fans. Fans who purchased the album when it was released probably wondered what became of the group during their lengthy dormancy though, in the end, they seemed content with this one disc...
...match its pits and camber--you have to grapple with ordinary, imprecise language. This is material for a writer, who will imbue it with form. The mystery that the writer possesses is the mystery of narrative technique and, as Sartre points out, people believe an author can take the content of his take from anywhere. This opinion leads to a disconcerting contradiction in the prevailing conception of a writer. He is thought of as a person with something to say, and at the same time as someone with nothing to say--as a man with a form that is seeking...