Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning to believe that a special providence watches over the event. Founder H. P. Van Hoy, now 81, recalls that it rained on the opening session 44 years ago, but "there hasn't been a drop of rain on any convention since. If that doesn't mean the Lord is with us, well, I don't know what...
...consider myself an extremely young man but a fairly old musician. How long I have played the cello is far more important to me than if I had reached the age of 150 because the years as such do not mean anything, but with the cello, not a day passes that I do not look for something new. I have played it for 58 years, and it is still full of surprises, full of adventures. Mine was made by Stradivari more than 250 years ago, but it stays forever young. How marvelously preserved it is! How beautiful it sounds...
...mean to imply that the department tried to make itself appear more traditionally academic to win Faculty approval. The whole purpose of studying the visual environment is to recognize and create social impact. For example, almost all the projects in the still photography course study either the way people act, the way people have created things, or the way they interact with the things they have created. You are marked on how well you express your idea; so you are graded on an aesthetic. But other departments of the University grade you at least partly on how well you write...
...shorter than the regular course reading lists since the whole purpose is to get the bulk of the reading out of the way early in the year. Only the most difficult, most analytical or philosophical texts would be held over for later in the year. This would no doubt mean that a huge amount of reading would have to be plowed through, but since the new system would not apply to Natural Science courses, to Language courses or to tutorials and since exam period stretches out the reading period anyway, it would not seem to be an impossible amount...
...this does not mean a restriction of the freedom in choice of topic, because papers that absorb the methodology or the ambience of a professor would also be indications that something of educational value has been transferred to the student during the course...