Word: contently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Watson answers that "only about one half of one per cent of the people not in clubs are terribly unhappy about it." It is no doubt true that non-members are far more content than the undergraduate who wants to get into the Porcellian Club but is forced to settle for a club farther down the ladder...
...year ago, Hugo was content to munch the wild grasses and reeds along the Kurasini bank. Then one night he began feasting on the sweet potatoes, maize stalks and plump cabbages grown by nearby farmers. Before long, villagers were grabbing up their machetes and spears and shouting for Hugo's hide. With his speed (up to 30 m.p.h.) and sharp sense of smell, Hugo managed to elude his pursuers. Yet it seemed only a matter of time before he would be caught...
...unresolved. In contrast, the American press reflects a society in which first principles are actively open to dispute. There is no question which makes the most stimulating journalism." At least there is no question in the mind of British Journal ist Henry Fairlie as he considers the prose and content of the U.S. press in the current issue of Encounter...
...past five years has seen a renaissance of the cinema in Eastern Europe, with most of the activity located in Czechoslovakia. The wide range of content and style in the modern Czech cinema indicates the importance of that renaissance. At one end of the spectrum we find Milos Forman, director of Peter and Paula and A Blond in Love, whose gentle touch conveys exquisitely subtle shifts of mood. At the other end stands the team of Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, who have created in The Shop on Main Street a film of enormous impact and meaning...
Soon thereafter, the Communists, who had been content with persuasion and threats in their efforts to enlist members, switched tactics and began killing schoolteachers and village leaders who refused to cooperate. In the past three months, more than 30 incidents of terrorism have hit the northeast, as many as occurred in all the last half of last year...