Word: meaningful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the personal experiences of the people working on the cover project gave them a special frame of reference, the serious matter of producing the story, of course, called for an intensive study of the facts, issues and arguments surrounding the bountiful production and myriad troubles of U.S. agriculture. It...
Musing over Los Angeles, Lyndon Johnson forgot for a moment last week that a presidential statement can have an impact out of all proportion to its literal meaning. He had just signed a public-works bill when he began to talk extemporaneously about the "years of inaction" and other factors...
On F.D.R.s Lap. In scope and philosophy, Charlie Shuman's outfit today has little in common with the Farm Bureau that set out 45 years ago as a "wedding of corn and cotton"-meaning farm interests of the Middle West and the South. In the dire early days of...
Bogeywomen. All the while, Duvalier's reign of terror continues. Shortly after coming to power, he "organized his tonton macoute, meaning bogeymen in Creole, a vicious, plainclothes gestapo that collects taxes and blood money from merchants, tortures and murders suspected anti-Duvalierists. To help the tonton in their grisly...
Probably no man of the 12th century has had more meaning for intellectuals of the 20th than Thomas Becket. Hum bly born in London's Cheapside, Becket rose high in the world to become Chancellor of England under his fast friend and boon companion, King Henry II. Becket served...