Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little uncomfortable in Odets's presence, but quickly came to accept him, probably as a spiritual ancestor to such modern plays as Dear Me, the Sky is Falling and I Can Get it for You Wholesale. Lines like "I got a yen for her, and I don't mean a Chinese coin" were laughed at agreeably, and the play's genuinely tense moments drew genuinely tense reactions. All in all, it was hard to believe Awake and Sing could have meant something more, or even something different, to its '30's audiences than to its '60's audiences. It still...
...There is also a good possibility that the School will agree to offer sanctuary," Hornberger continued. This would mean that federal agents would have to arrest the eight resisters on the altar of Andover Chapel, perhaps with Divinity School students and faculty "trying to keep them from entering," said Samuel W. Brown, another Divinity School student...
...because it is a politcal fact. The retreat from magnificence, to use a phrase of Evelyn Waugh's, has gone on long enough: too long. An era of great public works is as much needed in America as any other single element in our public life. Magnificence does not mean monumental. That seems to be a point to be stressed. I have heard Saul Steinberg quoted as saying that the government buildings of Washington seem designed to make private citizens realize how unimportant they are, and there is much to what he says. But that seems to me simply...
...Would you say that you care about people? Are you protesting against certain things? How do you see the art of the folksinger in contemporary society?" Dylan retreats as his words advance: "How can I answer that question if you have the nerve to ask it...What does that mean?...What do those words mean...
...addition to delaying the opening of Mather House, an extended wait before cuts could also mean that more will have to be cut. New England construction costs are now rising faster than those in other sections of the country, Trottenberg said. He blamed that on the large amount of new construction going on at this time in New England...