Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Right now the girls seem content with their lot. "I'm not going to be separated," Britty insists. (Having met just one Holton twin, she has some sense of the risks.) Each girl seems to have established a remarkably solid sense of self. "They do their own work," says Stahlke, their teacher. "When we take tests, they could copy each other so easily, but they don't. If Abby makes a mistake, Britty has that one right. It just amazes...
Director Franco Zeffirelli, whose views mirror the Pope's on most issues, isn't enamored of the artistic taste of the Vatican. When it named 45 films with worthy religious content, none were his. He fumed, "My films have brought about many more conversions than all those cited in this absurd list...
Some of the faithful will have to be content with the catalog, which was published last week. It is a thick paragon of low-intensity salesmanship: plain cream cover, small gray type, no objet d'art staring from it--which is only proper, since what Sotheby's is selling is spiritual contact. Some 100,000 copies are available, at $90 (hardback) and $45 (soft). This print run will probably take care of the cost of the color plates, which are many and which reproduce such treasures as Lot 924, "A Set of Six French Stoneware Butter Pots, Modern," estimate...
...very inclusiveness of Carter's integrity makes it alarmingly content-free. Even a Nazi concentration-camp operative, to draw on one of Carter's illustrative cases, could, on the face of it, exhibit "integrity" by zipping through the three-step program before turning on the gas. In which case "integrity" wouldn't be much more than an accessory, like a walking stick or a pipe, designed to impart some of that ineffable quality we all seem to crave--gravitas...
...more extreme feminist protests of sexual misconduct, which helped shape the date-rape debate, made sexual promiscuity seem a kind of sexism, or false consciousness.) Liberal faith in the inherent value of saying something--anything--was abandoned. The act of speaking was considered only as valuable as the content of the speech...