Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their song ("Savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park"); Richard Linklater's Slacker, with its Austin, Texas, deadbeats, was their movie. This was the MTV generation: Net surfing, nihilistic nipple piercers whining about McJobs; latchkey legacies, fearful of commitment. Passive and powerless, they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label that stuck was from Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X, a tale of languid youths musing over "mental ground zero--the location where...
...Obviously papers are neater, cleaner and probably easier to edit," says Charles S. Maier, Krupp Foundation professor of European studies. "[But] I don't think it's [necessarily] made for higher quality prose. I don't think it's had an impact on content...
...agreement, the result of several concessions made by both groups, may have failed in its attempt to forge a successful partnership. With neither side completely content with the results of last summer's negotiations, the past year has been a tumultuous one for the organization...
...Sears called the clubs the "last socially acceptable group to discriminate against," dismissing Epps' report as, "whiny, patently self-serving, smug and patronizing," and noting that the formation of the clubs reflects "Harvard's [failure]...to provide places for undergraduates to go where people can have as much fun." Content to brush off revelations of sexual harassment and drug dealing by blaming Harvard's social life, Sears has even more gall than we would have expected...
Mikelson refused to comment on the content of the Board's recommendations...