Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago Noelle married Sydney Chaplin, who is conveniently starring in Subways Are for Sleeping just down Broadway. With that bit of luck, she is content with her role, including its high undress. "The role is in the personality," she says. "The costume suits my part...
...matter that made him famous - woods softly filling with snow, the birches and stone walls of New Eng land, the brook in the back pasture, the tang in autumn air at apple-picking time - and he no longer attempts the lyric intensity of his earlier works. Increasingly, he is content with sententious verse written with the negligent, remembered skill of a master craftsman. The old man is fascinated by the adventuring spirit of man. Many of his poems are half wisdom and half whimsy, and Frost often seems to be sharing a sly, private joke with God. In fact...
...their ambition is not more specifically directed. True, they have met with a huge number of difficulties. The retirement of the last Bliss Professor, Clarence Haring, ten years ago killed off formal interest in Latin America; the Bliss Committee whose job is to appoint a new Professor has been content to use the chair's funds for four "Fellows." Members of various Faculties who want to devise new course offerings, exchanges of men with universities in the hemisphere, and seminars and lectures, can only do so as volunteers. The only paid staff administering the Studies Office now consist...
JOHN O'Hara's latest work, Assembly, is another colossal waste of talent. For years, we have waited for O'Hara to live up to the considerable promise he showed in Appointment in Samarra and Butterfield 8; but, with an occasional exception, he has been content to turn out slick, meaningless potboilers...
...particularly good. The rest are mediocre, bland, and forgettable. They are, at least, easy to read, because O'Hara possesses a writing style that is always fluid and entertaining. His fast-moving, uncomplicated, pleasant prose will always find a publisher; but work dealing with the same ideas and content, expressed haltingly, would get shoved down its author's throat. And it is because of this same magnificent facility that those who have had hopes for O'Hara are so frustrated at his refusal to grapple with larger challenges than the unseen sex life of Gibbsville...