Word: contently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot content ourselves with a role within the alliance of auxiliaries to a Roman legion," said one Gaullist Deputy, advancing the reasonable enough argument that a truly independent Europe cannot permanently depend on the U.S. nuclear deterrent for its defense. There are only two things wrong with this reasoning: 1) De Gaulle expects the rest of Europe, including Germany, to be dependent on France in precisely the way he refuses to be dependent on the U.S.; 2) the French deterrent as out lined last week is not worth much now and will not be for a long time...
...rabbit jumped into a fire in order to provide food for his master, and, as the flames flared up, was transformed into a vision of the Buddha?a vision the Vietnamese monks were to borrow for their own purposes. Accompanied by his favorite monks and nuns, Buddha was content to be fed by local admirers and once scandalized his band by eating in the home of a courtesan. His last incarnation completed, at 80 Buddha lay down in a sola grove to die, passing out of the endless cycle of life into the great nirvana...
Mark H. Bramhall '65, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, was awarded second prize in the competition for an untitled "experiment with form and content." Bramhall's play will be read at the Loeb...
...segregation is by no means the only pressing issue Conant sees. Since 1956, "revolutionary" changes have taken place in American education, he says, from new methods like language laboratories, programmed instruction, and television, to improvements in the content of physics, chemistry and mathematics courses. Significant organizational changes were recommended for high schools in The American High School Today. In this latest book he expands his perspective and tells what sort of changes are needed in the entire educational system if his, or anyone else's, substantive recommendations are to be carried...
...become a painter at the age of 40 has become fogged with hearsay and growing legend. Author Vallier penetrates to the basic facts of his life and establishes a firm chronology of his work. She is thus able to be explicit and detailed about the development, both in content and technique, of his entirely self-taught and strangely powerful...