Word: contention
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Paley, CBS's problems began several years ago, when it ran out of inventory: attractive shows to replace the aging hits that it started the decade with. "We made a very, very serious blunder," he says. "Maybe we were too content, but when things started to go bad, we just didn't have the inventory we used to have. This was during the time Silverman was programmer [before he moved to ABC] too, so he has to take some of the blame along with other people. I frankly didn't know we were that...
...trouble with Good as Gold is that Heller is never content to stay with Washington as Kafka Komix. He insists on ventriloquizing bleak pronouncements on the state of the union: "Gold knew that the most advanced and penultimate stage of a civilization was attained when chaos masqueraded as order, and he knew we were already there." Or, "No society worth its salt would watch itself perishing without some serious attempt to avert its own destruction. Therefore, Gold concluded, we are not a society. Or we are not worth our salt. Or both...
...Corporation in its April 1978 report promised to support corporate withdrawal resolutions where companies fail substantially to disclose material facts. Now, however, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility appears content to proceed with the case-by-case review on the basis of employment practices data alone. This belies a conservative and deferential attitude toward corporate management...
Andrews' sophomore year marked the start of a steady but tenuous relationship with the varsity team. Andrews recalls. "I had a good camp, but I didn't think I had a prayer of making the varsity. I was content to play J.V. I guess Billy (Cleary) liked some of the things I did. I saw my name on the varsity roster the day he made the cuts. Jeez, I was high as a kite. I didn't touch the ground for a few days. It was the biggest surprise of my life. I ended up practicing with the varsity...
WHEN THE MEMBERS finally got together, the freshmen leaders backed down, deciding to content themselves with one or two of the four positions and a few spots on the club's governing board. "They understood that it was ridiculous to run for high office in the club just a few days after they had become members," Tamara Stanton '79, the club president in 1978, said earlier this week. Since there was agreement on the issues and everyone had a rough idea of who was running for what, all involved entered the election meeting expecting no major battles over club offices...