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Word: meanness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been expected to bring Indians together, instead exacerbated the problems of its linguistic, regional and religious animosities. In Indian parlance, the feuds are lumped together under the word communalism. The term once connoted a beneficial form of cooperation but in the last decades of the British Raj came to mean precisely the opposite. Communalism has long been one of India's paramount concerns, and there is every indication that the process of fragmentation is speeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: INDIA: Another Setback for Indira | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Elaine May is a corrosively perceptive satirist with a mean comic punch. Her off-Broadway one-acter Adaptation, the first of a double bill completed by Terrence McNally's Next, makes one laugh till it hurts, partly because the ache of recognition is in every line and situation. She has the wit to see that if Pavlov's dogs salivated at the tinkle of bells signifying food, modern man is not so very different. He salivates at psychological flash cards marked Emotional Maturity, Identity Crisis, Making a Commitment, as well as at traditional cues for action such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: A Lovely Couple | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...second principle does not mean simply that the doctor must be paid for his services, which is his obvious right. Rather, it means that he must be paid for each individual service, on the basis that U.A.W. President Walter Reuther aptly and contemptuously calls "piecework." It means that no doctor should offer lifetime care to a patient for a flat or annual fee, and thus rules out prepayment by an annual dues system. It means that when a patient goes into a hospital for an operation, he must pay the admitting doctor's bill, a separate surgeon's bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Plight of the U.S. Patient | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...avoid the stop-and-go policies that in the past have produced sharp, erratic swings in the money supply and have brought criticism from some economists. The need is to show, as George W. Mitchell, one of the Federal Reserve's seven governors, puts it, that "we mean business in breaking the inflationary psychology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: NIXON'S FIGHT AGAINST ECONOMIC PROBLEM NO. 1 | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...world, there was still room in it for men to be heroic, to love, to experience joy in all its intensity. The greatest artists, the brightest people -- they were all fucked up. Maybe this was alright. What kind of happiness was he going to Esalen to buy? Would it mean giving up the tremendous pleasure that he was able to find in the real world, no matter how castrated...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Esalen and Harvard: Looking at Life From Both Sides Now | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

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