Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever met Thomas Wolfe was likely to forget the force of his personality. A hearty clasp of his huge paw could mean considerable pain to the hand he had shaken. And no reader of his novels, whatever the reservations about their real worth, could easily forget their impact. That is part of the trouble that confronts Biographer Andrew Turnbull. In his conversations, which were really monologues, and in his novels, notably Look Homeward, Angel and The Web and the Rock, Wolfe spilled it all. His autobiographical heat and drive, the boiling response of his senses, are the substance...
...overall reduction which Gill expects does not necessarily mean that fewer seniors would move off than now do. About 60 juniors are off-campus this year, and this would not be permitted once Mather House opens in the Fall of 1969. Nonetheless Gill expects that the number of seniors who will want to move off will not be much greater than the 150 which the College allowed off this year. Even now, without the larger fee, Gill said, "living out has a strong appeal for a limited number of students...
Brooks, however, is not satisfied with these arguments. He said that closing three Milton stations would inconvenience a large number of people, the cost of the plan would mean unnecessarily increased tax assessments, and running rapid transit into an area where only 1500 people board per day is wasteful...
Minimal Requirement. Then Clifford offered the first public-and presumably official-interpretation of the President's declaration. It merely means, he said, that the North must not use a bombing pause to increase-as it has in the past-its infiltration of men and materiel to the South. It does not mean that the Communists must discontinue transport of their "normal amount of goods, munitions and men to South Viet Nam," or stop fighting "until there is a cease-fire agreed upon...
...Similarly, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin used noösphere to mean "world of the mind," but Frankl says his psychiatric terms were developed independently...