Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course that intends to discuss "social change in America." By that, we mean to investigate the obstacles to the solution of America's major political, social and economic problems...
...beginning of integration after the '54 decision was deceptively easy. Black children, brave and resisting hostile taunts, went to white schools. For a year, Southern school districts seemed beaten. No one imagined that "all deliberate speed" could mean a very long time, and individual school boards from Arkansas to South Carolina quietly let Negroes into classes...
...things." Replied Solzhenitsyn: "The task of the writer is to treat universal and eternal themes: the mysteries of the heart and conscience, the collision between life and death, the triumph over spiritual anguish." He told his accusers with bitter humor that he knew very well what such views could mean for him. "I am alone, my slanderers are hundreds," he said. "Naturally I will never succeed in defending myself, and I cannot know in advance of what I will be accused. If they say I am a supporter of Copernicus' solar system, and that I set the fire that burned...
...month's figures, the Board of Trade warned, does not mean the end of a situation that only a week earlier had sent the British to Basel to arrange another $2 billion in credits from friendly central bankers (TIME, Sept. 20). Indeed, the board last week pointed out that some of the August increase in exports resulted from an "erratic" jump in diamond shipments. Nevertheless the figures, coupled with those of earlier months, do indicate a trend of sorts. Exports from June to August as a whole are 5% above those of March, April and May. Said London...
Then there is Autobiography, which is meant for monophonic tape and a "visible but silent author." Menelaiad, on the other hand, "depends for clarity on the reader's eye and may be said to have been composed for 'printed voice,' " which may or may not mean that it is to be read aloud-silently...