Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home editing a "knockabout" paper (his description) like the New York Post. A canny student of popular prejudices, he plays to resentments and, like press barons of old, prides himself on an intuitive understanding of mass taste. He doesn't aspire to educate or elevate the public, being content to entertain and satisfy...
...Book and the Brotherhood is Iris Murdoch's 23rd novel. That number alone does not fully convey the amazing range of her productivity. For as seasoned Murdoch readers can attest, she has seldom been content simply to tell one story at a time. Her fiction typically doubles up, offering both explicit and subterranean tales. On the surface, civilized, well-educated characters move about in theoretical freedom, working out their destinies according to the dictates of reason and plausibility. But actually they are in thrall to hidden forces, submerged patterns, in danger of being swallowed up, say, by the plot...
...often students seem content to compile information from various sources, to stick it together in a paper, to make some abvious statements about that evidence, and to believe they have done a good piece of writing." --From Expos Director Richard Marius's Report on Undergraduate Writing. (10/7/1987...
...student opinion by school officials, and threatens the long established precedent that students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." But on the other hand, his ruling can be placed in the tradition of the Court's belief that the content of a publication should be up to the owner of the publication--and that access to that forum should be determined solely by the owners and not the Court...
...stranglehold on the English charts for most of 1987. The production team sold 35 million singles and 12 million albums, and they like to say "We are the charts." "They're very contemporary in what they do," says Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. "However, their lyrical content is not, even they would admit, particularly interesting." SAWtooth productions like Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up are basically transmigrated American soul tempered down and slicked up into a formula that makes fashion as much as music. "A single really is a three-minute throwaway piece of plastic," says...