Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though no one doubts the historical value of these stories, their content places them with Danielle Steele and Sidney Sheldon as great beach reads. Alcott herself put it best in her journal of 1862: "I enjoy romancing to suit myself, and though my tales are silly, they...
...content with throwing in the odd gratuitous buttock scene or some flamingly inept symbolism, Joffe and Stewart decide to addend several new themes to give more scope to their crassness...
...Catholics say their religion is very important or fairly important in their lives, according to a new TIME/CNN poll conducted last week (see box). A 1994 survey by the Los Angeles Times shows that priests and sisters are comparably satisfied. Skeptics might argue that Catholics who were not content have left the church, thus eluding the pollsters. But the ranks of those defectors have not been growing in recent years. Father Andrew M. Greeley is popularly known as the author of steamy best-selling novels, but he is also a sociologist who has spent more than 30 years analyzing...
Superficially, such an event seems like a small victory for student activism. Certainly the substantive content of the protest was contemptible--only an idiot or an unreconstructed hedonist would wish to smoke cannabis after being fully apprised of the drug's ill-effects. Yet perhaps its form--with its persistent challenges to authority and the status quo--represented a first step toward a broader social consciousness among college students. Even if the cause of cannabis is bankrupt, Mass-Can could still claim a bit of credit for raising the political consciousness of its followers...
...corporate advertising. Any self-respecting adman angling for the dollars of the twenty something set is bound to include references to nonconformity and independence in his copy. The great irony is that these ads' suggestible targets consummate their acts of resistance in moments of consumption long drained of meaningful content by their repetition and brevity...