Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smug if they had added, as Eliot did: "I am quite aware that the first term is completely vague, and easily lends itself to claptrap; I am aware that the second term is at present without definition, and easily lends itself to what is almost worse than claptrap, I mean temperate conservatism; the third term does not rest with me to define." Years later he regretted that he had given "some critics the impression that ... all these three were inextricable and of equal importance...
What did the elections mean? Though not a completely accurate reflection of popular sentiment, they confirmed significant trends: 1) the continuing upsurge of Gaullist strength; 2) a mild revival of the Radical Socialists, the nearest French approximation to U.S. Republicans; 3) the decline of the Communists; and 4) the final collapse of the M.R.P...
Maldarelli looks like a chunky businessman, mild and bespectacled. The respectful attention he gets from art critics seems to mean less to him than the affection of his students, who call him "Mai." Wearing a hat made of newspaper to keep the chips out of his hair, he lets them look on while he carves, knocks off now & then to serve tea. "When I get bored with myself I go and see what the students are up to. I don't dictate, and I don't make them work too much from the model. The important thing...
Shaking back her long dark hair, Mitzi sadly tried to define the rift: "He's interested in the generalized shape of a woman; I like the generalized shape, period. Breasts, buttocks, hills and seed pods have similar shapes. I generalize them to make my figures mean more than just one thing...
...beat Army' or 'The night I knock out Graziano.' " Billy tells how Yonkel was once outjinxed by one Timothy Whitehead, who had lost $5,000,000 in the '29 crash. "That's diffrunt," said Yonkel, "winnin' from dat kinda fella don't mean I'm all washed up azza jink. I wuz outclassed...