Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...content of Bowles' hypothetical consensus, it follows the general line of Democratic platform and campaign, with the same virtues (concern for all the necessary things Goldwater would abandon) and faults (an eagerness to disguise the fact that public programs cost money and a corresponding failure to stress the fact that the country can and must afford this money). Bowles writes in amazingly short, terse paragraphs, and too often appears to be offering the reader an oversimplified first primer in American politics, history and economics...
...even if it is not a wonderful buy. The examination of Paul's existence is a perceptive and frightening study in purposelessness, and its Siamese twin, hatred. Chabrol dismisses as illusory Charles' concept that the Earth is a planet where hard work and honesty pay off. He does not content himself with bitterness, though, and descends into cynicism. He involves the audience in a world where only the pimp's concept of love can prevail. And this world is proclaimed as not only the real, but the ineluctable and unchangeable world...
Spahn is at his best when the going is worst. "I don't lose easily, and I pitch that way." he says. "You can't be content with halfway measures. I start every game intent on a no-hitter. When they get a hit, I try for a one-hit shutout. We baseball players live pretty high on the hog, and for 2 or 2½ hours on the ball field you can really...
...last night's televised debate, Aiken remarked, "Tonight we will have to be content with a debate between Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Nixon. We will have to wait for the debate between Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson...
Lodge does not expect to proclaim any bold new directions during the campaign. That, as he sees it, is Nixon's province. "If I have any bright ideas," says Lodge, "I expect I will pass them on to Dick Nixon." He will be content, he says, to make the inside pages of the newspapers, leaving it up to Nixon to stir up the headlines (a decision that already shows its effect in the evident boredom of reporters assigned to cover him). Under his campaign franchise, Lodge sticks to foreign policy, though as the campaign proceeds he expects to broaden...