Word: means
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What does the picture mean? Says Burra: "Bring in a psychoanalyst and we'll find...
...What do these miserable pensions mean? They mean that retired priests . . . must be content with a room or two in a stranger's house; they mean living on bread and margarine and vegetables . . . They mean that to eke out their miserable dole of $76 per month, the wife of three-score years and ten must compete with high-school girls for a job as baby-sitter...
...aplomb and discretion of an admiral, Ensign Brown held his first and only press conference to describe his four year voyage. "As far as the silent treatment is concerned, I can't think of any case of anyone doing anything since I've been here. If you mean do the fellows speak to me-well, for the most part most of them do." As for the officers and civilian personnel, "they couldn't have been more impartial...
Clarin went to Belgium and took a plane to London. When he got there, Clarin told the British immigration official that he had torn up his passport over the Channel, and that this formally made him a citizen of the world. "I see what you mean," said the Briton...
...needs is the chance to reveal what she is really interested in revealing-the vices, virtues and idiosyncrasies of human behavior. To this end, too, the people in her novels talk all the time but never talk naturally: unlike real people they always say just what they think, and mean just what they say; when they fail to do so, there is always someone close at hand to do it for them, grimly. Thus, at its best, a Compton-Burnett novel is like an iceberg whose normally concealed 90% has risen to the surface-something apt to make any average...