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Word: contentively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...content does not belie the appearance. The Harvard Review seems to have unraveled many of the problems which have hamstrung so many publications for so long. It has avoided the ubiquitous pitfalls of puerility, hyper-academicism, and tendentiousness. Editing and selection of material was done entirely by undergraduates, yet the magazine sustains a level of style and cogency which many adult-run "little" magazines might take for an example...

Author: By S. CLARK Woodroe, | Title: The Harvard Review | 2/7/1963 | See Source »

...have known Tennessee Williams and Milk Train's Director Herbert Machiz for years. From neither of them did I get any impression that Milk Train had a religious content of any marked importance, certainly none in a Christian vein. A psychoanalyst has given me a complete explanation, in Freudian terms, of the play's dramatizing the oral v. the anal; a philosophic friend told me Williams has examined "existence" and "nothingness" in terms of "knowing" as opposed to "understanding"; one poet I know sees "the Angel of Death" as a purely Rilkean angel ("a peaceful presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Using the Brain | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...Youngstown Sheet & Tube has been chopping costs for years by automating rolling mills, using oxygen and the highest iron-content ores to speed up its furnaces, and finally, says President A. S. Glossbrenner, "all our efforts seemed to have clicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earnings: How to Beat the Squeeze | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...first fourth-quarter earnings reports showed encouraging proof that the profit squeeze can be successfully overcome-and added substance to business's expectations of a 10% overall profit increase in 1963. Almost without exception, the brightest examples among the new earnings were recorded by businesses that were not content simply to complain about the profit squeeze, but concentrated on doing something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earnings: How to Beat the Squeeze | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...basic motives for revolution boil down to one: love of killing. At first the rebels are content to kill only their oppressors, who by and large deserve it. But before long, they are making no distinctions, shooting down and stringing up innocent and guilty alike. They even compete at cruel deeds. Boasts one: "When I was up at Torreón, I killed an old lady who refused to sell me some enchiladas. I got no enchiladas but I felt satisfied anyhow!" Another tops that: "I killed a man because I always saw him sitting at the table whenever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revolution Is Hell | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

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