Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What does it all mean? The confusing combination of light and radio pulses has persuaded most astronomers that pulsars are not white dwarfs (small, dying stars). And although British pulsar discoverers initially nicknamed them LGM (little green men), most astronomers have now given up the idea that the four known pulsars might somehow be powerful electronic beacons from a super civilization in distant space. Still in the running is the notion that they may be neutron stars: tiny bodies of densely packed neutrons, which are atomic particles having no electrical charge. The only thing that seems reasonably certain is that...
...this week, he will find a partner in bemusement. Hung by two wires from the ceiling is a large plywood artist's palette, smeared with paint and with a paintbrush affixed to it. On the palette, in black plastic letters, is the question: "What's It All Mean...
...Jimmy Breslin greets the ethics question with typical cynicism: "It's all a game," he says about the matter of protecting sources. "Nobody's telling you nothing he doesn't want to see in print. They say, 'Don't print it' and they mean 'Print it.' So I say I won't, and I mean I will. Flimflam has gotta be met with equal flimflam. I don't regard anything as private-as long as I'm talking to public people...
...ambiguity in American life or not, it exists. I think some of the people who make an analysis of this society in terms of who owns stock in this or that institution, are not taking into consideration just how complicated and disarming American society is--by disarming I mean anti-ideological in its frustrating complexity...
...make us suspicious of people like me, but also to make us suspicious of people who say, "You cannot look at particular human beings and their needs when you're out to change society." This latter viewpoint can be used as a rationalization and justification for the most mean and cruel and inhuman political acts imaginable...