Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic fallacy, summarized in the over-discussed title essay. Miss Sontag argues that the concern of the critic is not to discover the "meaning" of a work, but to talk around it. She never gets around to defining "meaning", but one gathers that she equates it with paraphrasable content...
Munch also found the concert an irresistible opportunity for resuscitating Symphony Hall's gilded plumbingvia the Symphony No.3 of Saint-Saens, the so-called Organ Symphony. Politely termed "eclectic" in content, the symphony's overall level of subtlety and sophistication is best revealed by the descending C-major scale, played ff by the organ, which brings the work to an appropriate close. The listener is always guaranteed a few nervous thrills; but Friday's performance offered far more. Munch focused the overextended first movement into several overwhelming climaxes, emphasized its contrasts, and even created, amazingly, a genuine air of tragedy...
...second assumption is that the Houses are so much alike that no one will suffer from living in one and not another. This is a reasonable idea, since any House is large and diverse enough to contain something for everyone's tastes. Chalmers believes that any student can be content in any House if he lives in it for a few months, even a House he might not have considered if he were forced to rank his first three choices. But it is also true that there are significant differences among the Houses, even if the differences are only reflections...
This while the Houses are certainly by no means identical, each has such rich content that, unless you are a specialist in an activity in which a particular House is uniquely strong, it should not make much difference which you are in; and even then, it might be more exciting to be one of the people to develop a new strength in a House. Unless you are a chronic rebel, the chances are very good that, by the end of October, you will be convinced that yours is the best House...
...yard of adhesive tape stretched over the mouths of a dozen Administration leaders might prove an effective secret weapon," he has written. But while he believes that recent U.S. foreign policy has been based on "reasonable logic," he also feels that it has often been clumsily executed. "The content of great power policy must sometimes be blunt," he says. "Its style should always be burnished...