Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Five months ago, Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge couldn't have been elected to the office of dogcatcher in Georgia. Then . . . Mr. Truman started yapping about Civil Rights. Every time he opened his mouth for one of those monotonous speeches, it meant thousands of votes for "Hummon." Don't forget that the South is basically defensive in its thinking. It knows it has no friends outside the South, so it thinks it can counter its enemies by electing people like Long and Talmadge . . . SEATON OWENS Marietta...
...near Berlin by way of "target practice," the Western powers had an announcement for Berlin's people. The airlift was doing so well that Western Berlin's food rations would be boosted about 15%, from an average of 1,800 to 2,040 calories a day. That meant more cereal, fat, sugar, and-for the first time since war's end-cheese...
Whatever its resemblances to Williams' other plays, the play he meant to write in Slimmer and Smoke is easy to approve of. The only trouble is, he has not written it. It remains only a lucid diagram. Summer and Smoke has moments of sad, sharp insight, but little coherence and intensity as a whole. The reason is partly structural. In none of his plays has Tennessee Williams made a classic frontal assault on drama. Writing episodically, with tricks of stagecraft and a crutchlike use of offstage music, he has always trusted to a vague sense of poetry...
...present. The Coopers are a couple who never grow older, but the Cooper union is one that constantly grows worse. Love Life's argument is that steam, speed, materialism and greed have slowly wrecked connubiality. (It might be retorted that even allegorical couples were not meant to live together for 150 years...
...long-needed job-the definitive biography of Washington. Fosdick offered him Rockefeller money for the research, but Freeman refused because he was a trustee of the foundation. So Fosdick got the Carnegie Corporation to put up the cash. The cost so far: $23,000. For Freeman it meant ditching his plan to write a history of the Union's Army of the Potomac, something he no longer regrets because "There is so much ugliness in the history of the Army of the Potomac that it should not be shown up by a Southerner...