Word: contentively
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Unlike such dynasties as the Windsors in Britain and the Bernadotte kings of Sweden, Greek kings in this century have never been content to reign as figureheads; they like to rule too. Resentment over the Greek King's penchant for mixing in politics boiled over at the start of World War I, when the first Constantine exerted his influence on behalf of Greek neutrality. Constantine was forced into exile by a Cretan political wizard named Eleutherios Venizelos, and the feud went on for decades. The monarchy's popularity plummeted even further when George II backed the military dictatorship of General...
...produce great works of art or will remain merely intriguing decoration. Certainly luminal art is dazzling, far more mysterious than the jeeringly antisocial comment of pop, far more alive and sprightly than two dimensional op. Yet, like op, it often seems to be all surface and no content. In part, the problem lies in the novelty of the art and the difficulty its practitioners find in rising above the welter of technological gimmickry. But, unless some way is found to build luminal constructions far more durable than the present variety, museums in the year 2500 are going to be even...
Quite apart form the level of expenditures, however, Congress likely to make changes in the organization and content of the program that will be just as damaging. Congressional leaders of both parties are now planning to climate the office of Economic Opportunity and divide its programs among the old-line departments. Unless the administration accedes, Rep. Goodell (R.N.Y) recently warned, they "may well kill off the whole thing." OEO has failed in these first three years to perform many of its most important tasks, but sacrificing the program to the Departments will only worsen the situation. HEW will...
...content of the programs, the administration has retreated in some areas, in the hope of forestalling further attacks. Earlier this month, it ruled out the use of federal funds for "illegal picketing or demonstrations," barred antipoverty workers from "partisan political" activity, and provided that local Job Corps centers must screen out young men who have records of "violent antisocial behavior". It also announced that OEO would emphasize greater state participation and require annual audits of all local antipoverty agencies...
McLuhan is annoyed by the book-oriented people who criticize the content or television. He argues that the significance of the medium derives not from what it says, but from how it says it. In McLuhan's words, the medium is the message. And the electronic message is turning everything upside down. When we relied on our eyes we needed straight lines. But the television mosaic has destroyed the line and replaced it with the pattern. All of our lines are doomed. The book-age line on the backs of women's stockings has already disappeared because of television...