Word: contently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often mistreated. As far as his superiors were concerned, he had proved himself on the field; they were happy if he did not defect to the enemy. But in this century of total war, the prison camp has become an extension of the battlefield. Totalitarian nations are not content merely to extract information from a P.O.W. They often hound and harass a man for months and even years in order to win his mind and soul, to reduce him to an instrument of propaganda. It is, of course, a tactic that the Soviet Union devised for use against...
After meeting with the new governor, however, spokesmen felt reassured that the Inner Belt had at least been temporarily halted. One of the spokesmen said, of the governor, "his response represents a real turning point in the process and content of transportation planning within the metropolitan area...
Take a man doing a highly technical job and punish him because a doorknob is not shiny enough; make him appear in uniform on his own time to hear an official announcement the content of which he knew days before; make him an officer and expect him to believe in these absurdities. The mind boggles briefly and then realizes that the Army is something to be borne and that dignity and fulfillment will have to be sought elsewhere. Exit one valuable...
...issues, and live with what Franklin Ford calls "complexity." Most of us had done that, individually, and in an exhausting round of meetings. Most of us also wanted the Harvard community to think about those issues and those complexities, and not confine discussion of ways to elevate the intellectual content of ROTC courses. It is worth noting that the H-RPC report had implicitly called for a discussion of the moral and political issues to follow the abolition of credit and removal of department status. (In a letter to the CRIMSON, seven of the fifteen student members had explicitly condemned...
...being subverted by pernicious influences. This is a message I bring back from the Miami festival: The music of groups like the Grateful Dead, Iron Butterfly, Spirit, the whole West Coast style that is spreading rapidly to the East, replete with long solos (often tasteless and meager in content) within a virtually unstructured form, is music of sorts, and under certain conditions it sounds magnificent, but it isn't rock 'n' roll, and so it is forever denied a mass audience...