Word: contents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...content to let actions speak louder than words. Thompson also took the opportunity to fill Boyum in on the relative qualities of rival universities. "He told me that every player who went to Harvard. Yale or Princeton would have improved more had they gone to Princeton," says Boyum...
...advisers possess the fortitude to tell their President that they do not know what he is talking about. I mumbled something noncommittal that Nixon construed as assent. "All right," he said, "we will draw the wagons around the White House." He gave that enigmatic metaphor no further content before hanging up suddenly...
With all pressure off, the Crimson seemed content to help captain Donald Fleming become the first player to score more than 1000 points in the Ivy league since Princeton All-American and New York Knicks star Bill Bradley now a U.S. senator from New Jersey...
Although no immediate plans are currently on the drawing boards, the demand for more continues, as couches demand the best facilities possible. There is talk of an outdoor synthetic track and some desire more outdoor field space too match the extensive indoor facilities. Others are content for the time being...
...play boasts a gripping plot: it takes as its subject the true story of a young nun who became pregnant in her convent and whose baby was mysteriously strangled just after birth. But the script's forays into the realm of allegory place a heavy burden on its dramatic content. Agnes (Amanda Plummer), the nun on trial for the murder of her child, and her Mother Superior (Geraldine Page) together represent faith; Dr. Martha Livingstone (Lee Remick), the psychiatrist assigned by the court to the case, embodies reason. The problem with the play lies in its clumsy handling...