Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADAPTATION-NEXT. Elaine May, a corrosively perceptive satirist with a mean comic punch, is director of both of these humorous one-acters. Adaptation, which Miss May wrote as well, has the ironic viewpoint that life is a game played on the contestant. In Terrence McNally's Next, James Coco gives a fine performance as a potbellied, middle-aged businessman summoned for the draft through an obvious computer error...
Thus, any group which tries to encourage democratic participation outside the system of political parties (which does not mean that one has no option but to work within the two existing parties) is bound to run into trouble. But unless the political parties of the U.S. are able to reform themselves, or more likely, unless a great new, genuinely democratic mass political party is established, America will prove unable to retain any degree of her democratic heritage...
...order was introduced by Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci and passed unanimously. Explaining the implications of his proposal Vellucci said that this would mean that the Harvard CRIMSON would have to change its name to the Leprechano Green...
...skimpy insurance umbrella under which the ghetto poor live does not mean that needy patients must sometimes forego care; there is a more subtle and more debilitating disadvantage as well. Jerome Pollack, executive director of the Med School's health plan, said last week that "since the supply of doctors here is limited, the poor actually have to compete with the affluent for available care. In effect, private insurance may deprive low-income areas of care by attracting doctors into the well-insured areas...
...mean," said Scott, "that I'm a coward, and I have always though that I could get round it by admitting I was a coward. But I can't. I've spent most of my life reading and imagining and talking. This makes me as happy and as sick as most other people are who do their things. But something is pushing me on, or away. I'm getting out of my book...