Word: contently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eliot himself would have had difficulty reading much of his play in a way that would preserve the spiritual content. Corum has succeeded, by his reinterpretation, in producing a work whose ascetic tenor otherwise presents insurmountable problems...
Many newspaper publishers question whether such sheer bulk has carried the U.S. Sunday newspaper several compass points off journalism's true course. While the typical metropolitan Sunday paper has grown from 111 to 243 pages in the last 20 years, its news content has shrunk from 11.6% to 6.5%. Unlike its slender-and more single-minded-daily brethren, which are deeply embedded in the work week, the Sunday paper must snare that most elusive of all readers: the American at play. Two-day weekends, new leisure pursuits, and the emergence of television's mesmeric eye all have conspired...
...deplaned at New York's Idlewild Airport for a U.S. visit, Aleksei Adzhubei, 37, a pudgy, fair-haired carbon of Father-in-Law Nikita Khrushchev, was pointedly asked by a U.S. newsman: "As editor of Izvestia, are you responsible for the policies of the paper and its editorial content?" The Red editor's first reaction was a reflex affirmative. His second, delivered in the only English he used during the interview: "Maybe...
...Concludes Physicist Clark: "The indications are that the human race will survive the H-bomb, though it will be a close thing. Until some more efficient process is discovered, extermination will require a major effort by one or both of the great powers. Lesser states will have to be content with destroying most people and making the rest miserable...
...supreme social chronicler of the age, he was not content merely to perambulate society himself; he recruited an eavesdropper for every dinner table, a spy for every drawing room. In his own way Walpole ran a factory of anecdote and gossip, with duchesses doing piecework and Cabinet ministers tying up parcels and ambassadors acting as delivery boys. But the products themselves were all personally hand-finished; the letters proved as durably elegant as Lamerie silver or Sheraton sideboards...