Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Restrained in tone, candid in content, almost Trumanesque in verbiage, Lyndon Johnson's fourth State of the Union address was a marked departure from the sagebrush grandiloquence that has infused most of his major pronouncements as President...
...that is the system. However cruel and arbitrary it might be, few Princeton men reject it. There has not been a major change in its structure since Ivy Club was founded in 1879. Once a sophomore has gone through Bicker, he settles down in his club and is very content and comfortable. The club stereotype seems to crystallize his personality. He may have come to Princeton vaguely thinking he was preppy, but when he made Ivy he was sure of it. Patterns form. The club man begins to think he cannot get along with anyone outside his circle of club...
Chamberlain seems perfectly content with his new role as the self-effacing team player-particularly since it may at last bring him the one thrill he has missed so far: playing on a championship team. Of course, that will probably require beating the Celtics in the playoffs, and Wilt knows how tough a job that is. "The Celtics are better than us at every position but one," he says. "You can guess what that position...
...Alvarez hopes they are there, awaiting only the arrival of his spark chamber to be found. "After a boyhood spent watching his father's workers erecting a beautiful and complex series of chambers and passages in the Great Pyramid," he asks, "would Chephren be content to erect a solid and uninteresting pile of limestone blocks as his own pyramid...
...reveals about his contributors, who are identified only by name, age and the countries where he found them. If the spark can burn so widely and so brightly, and at so lovely an age, what kindles it? Who nourishes it? And why does it sometimes go out? Lewis is content to let the poets be judged by their work, and perhaps he is right...