Word: contently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pennsylvania Democrat in Louisiana, I was not even reassured by the polls. However, on election night I went to sleep content to know that the rest of the country did not want to maintain segregation at the cost of annihilation, and happy to forget the unspoken undertone: "In our hearts we know he's white...
...made for changing the organization." But, he added, "we haven't had those proposals." And he pointed the inevitable finger at France, saying: "We sometimes are puzzled by some of the things that we hear from a capital like Paris, when general expressions seem to have very little content in terms of specific ideas or specific proposals." This attitude is put more bluntly in the Pentagon, where a NATO specialist declares: "There is nothing wrong with NATO except Charles de Gaulle"-a view echoed by many U.S. cartoonists anxious to use their most savage pens...
Although the City Council is often overshadowed by the presence of Harvard and M.I.T., it does a remarkably effective job of governing. With the problem of civil rights, it has the opportunity to take the initiative in a field where most American cities have been content to do nothing...
Using a terse, first person voice, Brackman must imply a great deal through the order and content of the narrator's descriptions. But sometimes the detail is overly suggestive, forcing the reader to seek answers which simply cannot be found within the story. Nonetheless, if Brackman only hints at some relations and sources of motivation, he creates a genuinely poignant mood of wistful loneliness through a difficult narrative technique...
...have "to come up with a different broad ideology." Instead it should be a stable "of good candidates who are ready to meet the issues" and the Democrats. To use a newspaper analogy, the Republicans should be what The Herald Tribune is to The New York Times--in content the same, different primarily in style and approach...