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Today, few homebuilders are insisting on conversation pits, and a remedy has been found for homeowners discontented with the ones they have. A few cubic-yards of concrete and a couple of floor boards will do the trick. No one will ever know what once lay beneath.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Fall of the Pit | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

Sophomore tutors in History have been discontented with the present system of tutorial without credit for several years, but have never found much support within the Department for a change in requirements. At yesterday's meeting, however, most of the Board of Tutors and several senior Departmental members suported some...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: History Dept. Ponders Credit for Soph Tutees | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

The desperate turns a disheartened Cuba may take are many. The Bay of Pigs invasion did Castro the invaluable favor-so essential in fastening a dictatorship on a people-of convincing the discontented that resistance is futile. Most of the diplomats and foreign journalists in Havana (who can no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Moscow's Man in Havana | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

"If non-violent leaders are silenced by jailing or Red-baiting them, the violent factions will gain control of the integrationist movement," Braden claimed. The NAACP is already losing some members who are discontented with the slow progress made through peaceful action, he added.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Braden Censures HUAC Activities | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

In fact, for purely literary reasons, the avant-garde seems self-consciously in search of a revolution. It is full (as Noble Savage itself notes) of "young men with fringe beards and triple goggles looking for something to subvert which hasn't already been overturned by the restless and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Not-So-Advance Guard | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

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