Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bennett, who was notified of the Senate's decision in a letter from MacMullen, said he was content with the Senate's action and called it "a total victory for airness and due process...
Perhaps literary figures shouldn't write. Perhaps they should just conduct salons, help budding talents bud, and occasionally murmur sage epigrams. Then their writing couldn't tarnish their legend and we could be content to read about them in nostagalgic memoirs and intellectual histories. But unfortunately Gertrude Stein did write a bad undramatic play and all the skill of a fine repertory company isn't enough to save...
...content of the General Examinations in Social Studies will be changed this spring if the proposals of a student advisory committee are accepted by the department...
...Treasury authorities say innocently that Le Nickel can indeed sell products to the U.S.-if it can prove that they contain no Cuban nickel. Actually, there is no scientific way of either proving or disproving where the nickel content of a finished product comes from-a fact that enables the French to claim everything without being able to prove anything conclusively. At week's end, U.S. customs officials released one of the impounded shipments because it was destined for a defense plant, but the customs inspectors have orders to be hard-nosed about stopping French imports containing nickel. France...
...Menotti work is quite different. It is not a burlesque, but a fable, and its content and method are more complex. Two forces oppose each other: a group of highly conventional townspeople, and a strange young man. The young man--a poet--intrudes upon the townspeoples' Sunday strolling, introducing first a unicorn, then a gorgon, and finally a manticore. Each time, the people ridicule him, but promptly imitate him. As soon as each household has acquired a unicorn, the poet's dream is reduced to a fashionable banality. As he introduces each new beast, the poet says he has killed...