Word: content
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professed to be a happy burgher and well content with his lot. But at other times he seemed like a restless man. He said: "We all got just a certain number of hours to live ... I don't understand why people waste time." Frank Costello, who had once lusted for wealth, lusted for respectability. He was steadily thwarted. He had lived by stealth and secrecy, had avoided newsmen like the plague, but his power and influence had brought him torrents of publicity...
What should be the content of education? Hutchins' answer was simple: there is a kind of knowledge that transcends time & place; there are absolute values such as Truth and Justice, and they can be found by modern man, especially by studying what the great minds of the past had to say about the constant problems of mankind. The purpose of education, he held, is to train minds to be free, not chaotic, and free "because they can understand the order of goods and can achieve them in that order...
...HYRC says McNiel read this November 7 story at 2 a.m. of the morning it appeared and "objected to the quotes and the content of the article...
...very doubtful, then that the Chinese will be content to be pawns of the Russians. On the other hand, the ideological link between the Soviets and the Chinese can't be underrated...
...love lyric by the Advocate's new President, is called "Song," and succinctly continues the tradition of conventional obscurity which has become, one is tempted to say, a hallmark of the magazine. This particular poem is written in three four-line stanzas and makes no pretense of intellectual content. Instead, it tries to convey a delicate mood, I think, by means of a "Toy Lady" and the change of seasons...