Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was no rough work in the memorial. The statue, standing in front of a granite tablet in an oval plaza, even won praise from a particularly demanding critic. "I like it enormously," said Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 83, Teddy's daughter. "I think I have a rather mean disposition, but I can find nothing critical to say about it." Because the 88-acre island is out of the way compared with most tourist attractions, the memorial probably will not lure crowds of visitors-which will be just fine with the bird watchers and woods lovers who frequent...
...highest court. Last week it heard oral arguments in an appeal of a 1964 lower court ban of Fanny Hill.* As he picked his way among the piebald pronunciamentos of the U.S. Supreme Court, New Jersey Chief Justice Joseph Weintraub plaintively confessed, "I don't know what they mean...
Oscar Hubbard (E. G. Marshall) is a mean, vindictive half-man who vents his malice by slapping his genteel, alcoholic wife Birdie (Margaret Leighton). Oscar's brother Ben (George C. Scott) is shrewder, abler, more sardonic. Their sister Regina (Anne Bancroft) is ambitious for wealth, power and position. The trio's chance for the big money rests on joining a foxy Chicago manufacturer (William Prince) and sharing the costs of putting up a cotton mill. The key figure in the deal is Regina's husband Horace (Richard A. Dysart), ill in a Baltimore hospital. She orders...
...awareness that vanity often takes precedence over common sense. Asked Narrator Dick McCutchen: "If you feel that a $10 jar of something or other has made you look dazzling, and we tell you that it couldn't have possibly made any difference, except in your mind, does it mean that you have wasted your money...
...World War II, Greek Poet George Seferis took the measure of impending events and sadly quoted Germany's pre-Romantic Poet Friedrich Holderlin: "What is the use of poets in a mean-spirited time?" Now Seferis provides his own answer in his Collected Poems. Greece's only Nobel prizewinner is a deeply civilized and profoundly Greek man who draws on the whole heritage of his people, their literature, their myths and legends, their wariness born of defeat and exile, their toughness born of a stubborn struggle for survival. In his work, he shows how the present...