Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weissenberg's way out of this quandary was to take a sabbatical. Freed from financial worries by an inherited income, he moved to France, determined to "read more, live more, and rethink everything." His playing became "freer," he says. "I mean free in the sense that you are absolutely at one with yourself, and whatever you do is faithful to a single intuitive interpretation, whereas at earlier stages we are all so influenced by different interpreters that our playing is a patchwork...
...front door, a bell tolls the alarm from its innards, and brass flames flick from its windows. A viewer can peer past them to discover a drawing of a grotesque dragon and miniature ladders leading to invisible upper rooms from which there is obviously no escape. What does it mean? "I have no idea," says Westermann. "I cam build a thing, but I can't nail down what it is about. I don't know what it means. I guess that must mean I'm nuts...
...Dame on both of fense and defense, are touting him for almost every position on the field except head lineman. Most, however, agree his speed, deceptive moves and pass-grabbing skills would be put to best use as a flanker. "He's so great," says one scout, "a mean coach would use him both ways until he burned...
...back took off behind Kunz's blocking. A former tight end, he has the strength and agility to "pick up a big defensive end and whip him to the outside," says one scout's report. "He pass protects like a pro now." Foley is a "big, tough, mean lineman" from a school that specializes in turning out pro tackles. The scouts predict that he will win a starting assignment on any team that drafts...
Does this mean that the Faculty is blameless? Certainly not. In recent days, the moral self-righteousness of the students who decided to sit in had probably been reenforced by the elusive wording of the CEP resolution, which lent itself to misinterpretation--not only by those who ware anyhow suspicious of any solution less simple than their own. The CEP text, I believe, was too clever by half in its wording; yet it could have been clarified and improved if the Faculty had been able to hold a normal meeting, just as we could have discussed the holding of open...