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Word: contently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge city councillor Cornelia Wheeler, present at the meeting, said she felt "much enthusiasm" for the plan, and criticized the Harvard Businessmen's Association for what she called its "apathetic, content" attitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Plan Would Put Paths in Air | 10/27/1969 | See Source »

...relax after a hard day's work. We are concerned with the spectator who has genuine spiritual needs and who really wishes, through confrontation with the performance, to analyze himself. We are concerned with the spectator who does not stop at an elementary stage of psychic integration, content with his own petty, geometrical, spiritual stability, knowing exactly what is good and what is evil, and never in doubt. For it was not to him that El Greco, Thomas Mann and Dostoyevsky spoke, but to him who undergoes an endless process of self-development, whose unrest is not general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: Secular Holiness | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

When there was only enough room in history for kings, then the people had to find another meaning in life. Only a pharaoh could be content to have pyramids built to his glory. Now that everyone has a biographer, or at least an autobiographer, no one needs to look at life itself...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: In Defense of Terrorism | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

...feelings about the characters. One experiences Veytigo not as the series of moral transformations Wood accurately describes, but as an all-out romance whose ravishingly beautiful hero and heroine glide through deep, ideal settings. To understand this experience one must look to the method of the film, considering its content as a consequence of its means of expression...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: The Moviegoer Hitchcock's Career | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

...very best coffee- a subversive act, I gather- and bent an ear. As it turned out, the questions seemed pretty sensible to us. So we responded, sensibly or otherwise, as fully as we knew how. I hadn't realized then, silly me, that the content of Hyland's report couldn't possibly be affected by anything Hyland learned during that hour and a half. As far as Hyland was concerned, this was just fun and games- "a way of mutual indulgence in a creative function," as he describes...

Author: By Center FOR International affairs, | Title: Vernon Defines the Role of the CFIA | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

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