Word: contention
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much that people don't get "content" from TV, or that the content isn't important. They do. But what people really and mostly receive is a sense of themselves. What it mostly gives us is some other world, the world we dream we live...
...attempt to get around the moral and political issues, but an attempt to have the Faculty face those issues," Mendelsohn said of his resolution. Another proponent argued that "Every action we have taken since April has a political content...
...College will emphasize the initiative of students in planning the form and content of the discussion. Most groups will have a leader who will suggest initial directions, but the sense of the entire group should determine the course the discussions take. We want to encourage cooperative inquiry because it engenders communal sentiment- which is rarely found in atomistic, competitive teacher-centered discussion classes. Not that we want to discourage intellectual guidance- rather, we want an educational structure which will encourage teachers to relate their knowledge directly to the personalities and interests of their students. Moreover, we believe that student participation...
...months of this year, walkouts cost some 81 million man-hours. Worse is in prospect, for labor contracts affecting half of the country's 7,000,000 industrial workers expire before year's end. >In West Germany, where the booming economy of the Wirtschaftswunder has kept employees content for years, garbage collectors walked out in Munich and Nürnberg last week to demand better pay. Earlier, there were almost-unheard-of wildcat strikes by West Berlin bus and subway employees, Ruhr steelworkers and Saar coal miners. > In France, the trains, subways and buses began rolling again after...
...entirely happy with the direction the new found enthusiasm for films in the United States is going. He feels there is something wrong with critics and filmmakers who dwell on technique to the extent of eliminating content in movies...