Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"A school for politicians gives new meaning to a B.S. degree," he quipped.
Lately the word liberal has become something of a political epithet, meaning that the target is an impractical spendthrift. Kennedy's staff has taken to calling him a "pragmatist," which is supposed to convey the impression that he is a hard-headed problem solver not bound by any ideology. That...
The Soviet campaign is clearly aimed at pressuring Western European parliaments, but this time with both carrot and stick. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who last week dispelled rumors that he was gravely ill by appearing in public for the first time in 16 days (he showed up at a Moscow...
For a composer who is perceived as an epochal innovator, Webern never saw himself in opposition to the Austro-German musical tradition that extends from Bach through Mahler. To his composition students he held up Beethoven's sonatas as the supreme models of craftsmanship. The Columbia LPs conclude with...
Organizers said they formed the committee after Silber repeatedly violated faculty rights. They charged him with bending the meaning of the faculty contract, denying salary increases to his critics, intimidating professors, ignoring faculty advice in making decisions, and creating bad conditions for the university's secretaries and librarians.