Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Morris Carnovsky. Now, a decade later, Carnovsky is Shylock again. His was a supreme portrayal now. Shylock is not the most difficult role Carnovsky has undertaken, but it is the one that he has completely fleshed out and raised to the level of absolute perfection. I do not mean to imply that his portrayal is a frozen one. For, while both versions achieved perfection, they are markedly different...
There is no assurance that the new group will survive the November election. Nor is their any certainty that their defeat will mean a return to the politics of the past. Nothing seems predictable today for the City's politicians. Traditional politics were based on a councillor's personality and his availability to his constituents for advice, favors, or more camraderie; issues in City elections have usually been non-existent. Many of the councillors in the new coalition grew up in this kind of politics and still act as if things had not changed. Yet, in taking their radical departure...
...Mean while, Trotsky's widow carried on an active correspondence with many of her husband's colleagues and by the time of her death in the early sixties she had acquired an extensive archive of her own. About four years ago these papers where purchased by Harvard from Trotsky's grandson, Seva, and they were added to the other archives...
...usually knowledgeable labor unions, expected the Traveler to go when it did or in the quiet way it did. Most newspeople anticipated that the Traveler's death would be the result of a deal made by the publishers of all the Boston dailies, a deal that would also mean the end of some of the others papers; or that it would come at the end of a fierce and obvious circulation and advertising fight among the afternoon papers. Instead there was no deal and no extraordinary newspaper fight...
...city that took a parochial sort of pride in its "Never-say-Die" newspaper publishers has clear evidence that the impact of radio-TV and high production costs are overtaking tradition in the management of its newspapers. This does not necessarily mean that other papers may soon fold. Wags about town are pointing out, however, that the Record-American has made public no plans for a new printing plant although its current plant, a Victorian monstrosity, is slated for destruction in an urban renewal project...