Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mean to suggest," asked lanky Alden Todd of the labor-owned Federated Press, "that consumer controls are policestate methods?" They are, necessarily, said the President emphatically. Any methods that you have to enforce upon the people are police-state methods...
...would not be an easy job. Secretary Krug took "national resources" to mean manpower, technology and factories, as well as land, forests and minerals. Rich and bountiful as it is, the U.S. cornucopia is not limitless. Though annual exports on the projected scale of the Marshall Plan would amount to only 2% of the national capacity, they would be piled onto a taut, high-employment economy that was already near busting at the seams...
...think the responsibility of keeping the home full of love and comfort," said Novelist Hans Habe generously to a woman interviewer, "is at least as great as making a buck." The author of A Thousand Shall Fall did not mean, he hastened to add, that women should "just stay in the kitchen," but: "After all, somebody has to bring home the bacon and somebody has to cook it. But it is not a natural man's nature to bake the bacon...
...When Marx declared that religion is the opium of the people, he did not mean . . . that the privileged classes were using religion as a drug to keep the underprivileged anesthetized. No, he meant that religion is a consolation for the injustices and burdens of life in a capitalistic world. . . . The bourgeois American subscribes to the same definition of religion as Marx. In America religion is generally cherished merely for its consolation value. A tremolo on the organ, a theologically inaccurate sermon full of sweetness and light, a studious avoidance of the ghastly details of the Passion and our contribution...
Says a Hollywood hack: "Yeah, I know what they mean. A very healing guy." His teammate Dick Rodgers says: "He is a dreamer-but a very careful dreamer...