Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hone and defend our opinions." We were under the impression that our education was an instrument to help us change the world and change does not always come through debate. In the past, people have been murdered, maimed and forced to sacrifice for changes that others were only content to debate and write about, for instance the civil rights movement and last week's union protest of Harvard's hiring practices. Well-intentioned action is the flip side of well-intentioned thought. One without the other is useless and the fact that they are separated contributes to the scripted manner...
...July 26). A weird guy (De Niro) stalks a star (Wesley Snipes). That's it, at least in the high-concept, low-content trailer, which is all sweat and slow menace. We guess it's the same plot as The Cable Guy, perhaps with fewer laughs...
...perfectly content with my concentration. Good literature is good literature, no matter who writes it. And I'm studying some great stuff. Do I fear that by supporting ethnic studies, I am advocating the advent of a waste-land of academic vapidity, racial separatism and cultural malaise...
...Noise is less than two hours long, including the intermission, and that is just as well. Producer-creator- director George C. Wolfe, who directed Angels in America and runs the New York Shakespeare Festival, is content here with a series of impressions, and the book is weak. In this revue, the feet have...
...nervous that this hasn't peaked. There is a fear that if there are more fires in the Southwest, they won't have the ability to fight them all. There has only been 0.38 inches of rainfall since the first of the year, and the moisture content of debris on the forest floor is less than half what it usually is." Significant rain doesn't usually reach the region until July or August. So far, U.S. Forest Service officials have been able to contain the blazes before they caused extensive damage to private property. Last week's 16,000-acre...