Word: contentively
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nearly half its alumni in recent years; in the current drive, the Board of Trust set a good example by signing up for $11 million itself, thereby assuring the school of a $4,000,000 Ford Foundation matching grant. Branscomb has great expectations for his university, and he is content to sacrifice popularity to realize them. "He's not exactly the kind of man you would want to share a foxhole with," an aide says, "but if you were playing a crucial baseball game, you'd say, 'Pitch Branscomb,' and if it was a doubleheader...
...Even more serious, Grace's economic life or death depended on the political health of half a dozen volatile Latin American countries, and the aging handful of executives who had long run the company from their rolltop desks in New York seemed content that it should...
...CRIMSONS of March 15, 16, and 17 contained references--on one or another of their pages--to my talk regarding the Psilocybin Program. Unfortunately, these references gave a completely misleading picture of the content and context of my remarks. It would be impossible and inappropriate for me to review my arguments here, but two general points of clarification are in order...
...outside the magazine's concern. Y.P. has attracted big names, but it must know by now that active officials with jobs to keep and little time to spare can rarely be counted on to contribute original and specific ideas--especially on problems so diffuse as the U.N. (Considering the content, by the way, its celebrated refusal of Adlai Stevenson's article on the ground that the Ambassador had just rewritten an old speech looks ludicrous.) Big names also tend, rather mischievously, to spend 30 inches of type on points worth no more than four...
...Revolution. Along with poetry's popularity, and adding to it, has come a striking change in poetry's style and content, a vigorous evolution that may yet become the second great poetic revolution of the century. The first revolution, which rolled over the language during the decade beginning in 1910, was an American revolution, a revolt of the vernacular launched by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and Robert Frost-all of them still alive and writing, but not writing much. In the early '30s, the heirs of the revolution, led by Britain's W. H. Auden...