Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performers who dress up in Edwardian band costumes to comment on modern times? First of all, when you talk about the Beatles, you mostly mean John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who write nearly all the words and tunes, and producer George Martin, who writes the rest of what you hear on the record. Martin knows all the musical technique anyone will ever need: as a musicologist, he has at is command every classical trick in the book, as a record producer, he knows how to make piano strings sound like the winds of Hell. He can conjure up anything...
That could mean anything, for as any Asian can testify, the technique of the take has infinite varieties. A stranger at the airport in Vientiane should not be startled if the customs official politely demands a 100-kip "deposit" for the transistor radio in his baggage. In the Philippines, some of the busiest businessmen are the "commuters," people who travel back and forth between Manila and Hong Kong counting on bribed customs officials to let them return with luggage loaded with wristwatches, diamonds or electronic equipment. An applicant for a government contract in New Delhi may find his documents interminably...
...writes that coming to the conference table does not mean leaving the battlefield. The struggle goes...
...weeks ago he sent a telegram to the Lowndes Country school board congratulating it on re-segregating school faculties, this defiance of the courts may mean the loss of $342,000 in annual Federal school funds. Then last weekend Maddox scrapped the speech he prepared for the Christian Crusade at Tulsa and unleashed one that sounded like an old Pickrick advertisement: "One of the greatest tragedies of our times has been the effort to brand conservative thought and action as irresposibility and lunacy...
...three-man team from the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. When he is forced into this kind of administrative responsibility detracts from his fun-time with the people, then he is likely to express a few of his old-time slogans in frustration. It does not mean any policy changes, for Maddox does not execute any policies. The primary result is not what he does, but what his supporters do. It has always been true that the racists and extremists who support Maddox cause far more concern than he does...