Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Kings of England were also Emperors of India, Hindus in business had to be content with second-class corporate status. They could make comfortable fortunes-and many families did-exporting jute, tea and other products, and importing British goods. But, because Britons dominated the field, the Indians were mostly shut out of top manufacturing jobs...
...first show, The Service for Joseph Axminister, written by George Dennison, is a bland serving of existentialism dished out the self-conscious way the man who created the TV Batman would have done it. Alas, despite its mellow content, it will make...
...says Lovell. "It just so happens that this particular form of Russian and American space work fits into our normal research problems." The rest of Jodrell Bank's work is done on pure astronomical research -measuring the angular diameter of quasars and other radio sources, determining the hydrogen content of galaxies, pinpointing the location of radio sources by lunar occultation, mapping the Milky Way. Lovell's particular speciality is studying small flare stars that periodically increase in luminosity...
From P. Lorillard Co., the smoke signals came up clearer and cleaner. Two weeks ago, Lorillard announced that it would henceforth ignore the cigarette industry's self-imposed restrictions against advertising claims of low tar and nicotine content. Everyone automatically assumed that Lorillard had broken ranks for the simple reason that it was tired of seeing sales of its longtime low-tar leader, Kent...
...second answer runs deeper. Talk about Berryman keeps coming back to subject-matter, to content rather than form, to purposes rather than techniques. Just as the subject of Bradstreet, in the deepest sense, is Bradstreet, the Dream Songs are "about" Henry by God, and if Berryman's public descriptions of Henry are cagey, he is no more willing to divert the audience with coy adversions to his own skills or state of mind. For a long time poetry in this country has been working with an arsenal of familiar tools--"effects," "devices" and "meanings"--all largely technical considerations. Such...