Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equally obvious, Washington needs a new tactic: it must encourage Americans to do for themselves what they could do if they tried to. This idea has often been used as a sort of shorthand for the callous notion that all public assistance is a coddling waste; it does not mean that in the present context. What is at stake now is the freeing of the individual from unnecessary dependence on a remote bureaucratic apparatus or the liberation of local communities from the notion that they cannot help themselves. The Government can dramatize the issues, provide the example, and spend...
...What the hell is that supposed to mean? Are you better than other musicians?" We were sitting in the dressing room at the Scene in New York...
...This doesn't mean a lot to me, you know, all this talk about music. I can't feel it, you know, just from words like that. What about lyrics, man, do they have anything...
...mean, they don't have something to say, like a message. Its not meaningful in an immediate sense the way something like "For What Its Worth" is. I'm moved by the lyrics the same way the lyrics to early Frank Sinatra, or a song like "Somethin Stupid" are moving. There is a specific situation, a load of information concerning the lives and motivations of the individuals who are being discussed--usually in the first person--in the songs. In Sinatra, the situations are very realistic--a man writing a letter to his wife who has left him, or something...
...told his pals that the way Coach Allen drove the players at practice and worked 18 hours a day "takes all the pleasure out of owning a team." Somehow, he sighed, it was "more fun" losing with the other coaches than winning with George. So, not wanting to appear mean again, he waited until the day after Christmas to tell Allen that "this...