Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Called for more attention to values in the curriculum, with a place for religion in course content. "We have absolutely won the debate on religion," he exults, noting that when he first asserted that textbooks were neglecting religion, "people said, Omygosh -- Ayatullah!" Now, says Bennett, both liberals and conservatives agree with...
...must remember King's failure as well. He was not content to settle for legislative gains alone. Pressing on to the Northern cities, he attempted to harness the diverse energies and philosophies of an increasingly militant movement to redress inequities extant in America's ghettoes. That the task was much more difficult and that he did not succeed are also part of American history...
...Garcia, a successful, self-taught New York City nutritionist who decides what clients should eat after he has analyzed their hair. "I was a walking penny," says Amy Greene, 54, a makeup consultant at the chic Henri Bendel store. Garcia found that her hair had a high copper content; he decreed she must stop drinking her usual 16 cups of tea a day. Now, Greene says, "my skin glows. If a dragon came in, I'd slay...
Kopit, however, isn't content with merely showing us the familiar Dr. Strangelove crew of zanies. He also makes intriguing suggestions about curiosity and the allure of the vision of the ultimate catastrophe. Foreman's eerie, often surreal staging captures the sense of this fatal desire...
That air of discriminating toughness was hardened during her marriage, which was, as much as anything, a rhyming of opposites, a marriage of public and private. "She was a very supportive wife," recalls her mother-in-law Dona Aurora. "She was content to remain in the background. She did not meddle, she stayed at home." As it happened, she had little choice. "Let's face it," the President likes to say with a wry mixture of affection and realism, "my husband was the original male chauvinist...