Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The meaning of the election can be summed up as a series of paradoxes. One, there can be no alternation in power, of the kind that exists in the U.S., in Britain or in West Germany, as long as the French C.P. pursues so sectarian a strategy as to keep...
Smith told a group of touring U.S. businessmen in Salisbury last week that now that Rhodesia has committed itself to majority rule the free world should "deliver the goods"-meaning that the Salisbury government should be given diplomatic recognition and that the twelve-year-old Rhodesian trade boycott should be...
There is no context to Straight Time; the movie is all matter-of-fact incidents. Max gets out of jail on parole, breaks parole, commits burglaries and awaits certain reincarceration. While one is grateful that the script does not explain Max's self-destructiveness with handwringing, Freudian sermons, Straight...
The basic idea becomes somewhat clearer with an effort to visualize it. The theory requires one to imagine an arrangement of geometric surfaces at different levels and a point moving along one surface, until suddenly it plunges to another surface. The plunge of the point marks the convergence of the...
As an illustration, Paulos offers the one about a fellow who goes to a computer dating service seeking a partner who is short, gregarious, formally attired and fond of water sports. "We are led by the joke so far along one meaning surface," says Paulos. "Then comes the punch line...