Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN. Brilliant plumage and clever choreography give this historical drama the shifting, colorful splendor of a kaleidoscope, but Playwright Peter Shaffer fails to inform the story of Conquistador Pizarro in Peru with a coherent dramatic or philosophical content...
...Cosa Nostra boys, who would like to put a big dent in Joe, so far have had to be content with advertising a $100,000 price on his head. That price may go higher. Last week the Justice Department announced that it had offered Valachi's memoirs, entitled The Real Thing, to a dozen U.S. and European publishers. Valachi was asked to write his life's story on the chance that he might recall some forgotten tidbits of information. No luck. Rather than junk the monumental tome, federal officials decided to waive the rule against federal prisoners writing...
...they are indifferent to systematic thinking. Thus, for both movements, a question such as "What is truth?" becomes impossible to answer. The logical positivist would say that a particular statement of fact can be declared true or false by empirical evidence; anything else is meaningless. A language philosopher would content himself with analyzing all the ways the word true can be used. The existentialist would emphasize what is true for a person in a particular situation...
...international editions are all in English and virtually identical in editorial content (the Canada edition carries an additional four pages of Canadian news, written and edited by a staff based in Montreal). They are printed in six plants around the world. Their circulation gains (up 47% since 1956) have been coming largely from the economically advanced areas. For example, there is now one TIME reader for every 19 people in Canada, but only one for every 668 in Latin America...
...when William Somerset Maugham was a young man of 64, he turned his thoughts to a subject of considerable importance to him: a fitting end to his own story. "Having held a certain place in the world for a long time," Maugham wrote in The Summing Up, "I am content that others soon should occupy it. When nothing can be added without spoiling the design the artist leaves...