Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the '60s. Much of the confusion about the missile gap results from changes in the meaning of the term. It figures in debate in at least three different senses: 1) a gap in missile technology, 2) a gap in present missile capability, and 3) a gap in future...
Mustered in a hurry, the journalist army trained its eyes on the riotous color of Cuba in ferment. Rivers of copy surged onto the front pages, but the meaning of Cuba's sudden agony was left to deskbound editorial writers. They fired from the hip. Batista, the deposed tyrant...
The total result of the press coverage was that the U.S. newspaper reader, depending on his paper to bring focus to a scene far beyond his own powers of definition, was left with a murky picture. The facts were all there-the drumhead justice, the full-length profiles of the...
Forbidding Fruit. Fromm sees the same basis for the great popularity of psychoanalysis since the early 19305, especially in the U.S.: "Here is a middle class for whom life has lost meaning . . . Yet they are in search of a meaning, of an idea to devote themselves to, of an explanation...
Of course a great writer in good form can make much meaning of scanty material. But O'Casey rather plainly hasn't, in this particular instance, and the Charles Playhouse fights a vain battle in trying to elicit dramatic tension from a turgid situation that O'Casey has told in...