Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insight and sensitivity of its content should do much to stir up the consciences of medical men as well as of people of all religions to face their obligations at the time of others' death. Few people in their secret hearts want to die alone...
Haste is the standing excuse of the newsman whose deadline bouts with the typewriter let a cliche or two slip past his careless eye. In an effort to reduce the cliche content of its own copy, the Associated Press, which must cope with haste to a greater degree than most news-gathering agencies, decided to enlist the aid of a computer. From ditors and staff writers all over the U.S., the A.P. assembled a list of 469 hackneyed words and phrases. These were fed into a Univac 1105, along with 375,000 words of wire copy to be sifted...
...content with that (plus some $221 million of outright French aid), Ben Bella is demanding half ownership of the oil industry, which now gives him 50% of the profits, so that he can industrialize poverty-stricken Algeria. French negotiators seem willing to give in to demands for joint management of new oil ventures, but want to hold out for the profitable status quo on existing operations. So far, Ben Bella has shied away from talk of outright nationalization, but Algerian oil workers are ominously pressuring producers for control over hiring, firing and promotions...
...expensive picture book is probably a fixed Christmas institution for the foreseeable future. As publishers recognize, its very size and expensiveness make it sell. Both price tag and poundage are an unarguably solid demonstration of the giver's regard. The presumed esthetic content is an implied compliment to the recipient's cultivation. Yet it can appear to be absorbed just by leafing through it; and duty done, the thing lends its own cachet as it lies there on the coffee table. Of course, for those with the courage to seek them out and match them with the taste...
...Though it has always seemed formal, stylized and decorative to the Western eye. Japanese art is also insistently narrative, copiously illustrative in content. With its scenes of battles and civil war, of palaces looted and burning, of the sea and bustling daily life, art in Japan has served many of the functions of chronicle, comic book, religious tract and daily newspaper. By a skillful selection of paintings and prints. Editor Bradley Smith has managed to tell the tumultuous history of the nation almost entirely through its art, with only the essential minimum of supporting text. The result is also...