Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end. the grand jury returned its report-which was of predictable content. The U.S. deputy marshals who had been assigned to protect Meredith, it said, committed "many cruel and inhuman acts of violence." It commended Mississippi's state cops for "dedicated action." The encirclement of the Ole Miss administration building by marshals "was apparently done for the sole purpose of agitating and provoking violence,'' and Chief Marshal McShane's order to fire tear gas "was done for the purpose of inciting a riot." The jury then returned sealed indictments against two people. From...
...people who promote her records and concerts are forever saying that "she speaks to her generation." They may be right, since her generation seems to prefer her to all others. If the subtle and emotional content of her attitude is getting through to her contemporaries, she at least has an idea of what she is trying to say to them and why they want to hear it. "When I started singing, I felt as though we had just so long to live, and I still feel that way," she says. "It's looming over your head. The kids...
...disturbance twelve years ago followed a 1949 season-one of Harvard's worst-that was capped with frustration when fans in New Haven found the Yale Bowl's steel goalposts impossible to tear down, and had to content themselves with throwing sod around on the field...
...indeed, for being a Cabot and a Lowell in Boston was not a feeling, but a state of being. Yet Godfrey Lowell Cabot was remarkable even for a member of Boston's two most famed families. He was not content to peer down from Beacon Hill and mourn, like the late George Apley, the passing of Victorian glory. He moved into the outside world and modern times with astonishing vigor and effectiveness, and he left behind him his own highly personal mark...
...however, Salinger's work is faintly reminiscent of a psychological test, revealing the story-teller by the way in which he unfolds his story rather than by any message that he means to convey. To interpret Salinger demands a singular sensitivity to the way in which style dominates content and a very direct perception of a most unusual writer. I would not claim this skill, and neither, in fact, do the contributors to this collection...