Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Solicitor General Simon Sobeloff, a Marylander, offered "the counsel of moderation, but with a degree of firmness." This, he explained, meant no deadline for completing integration, but a deadline of 90 days (plus extensions if needed) for submitting plans to the District Courts. The lower courts should be told not to allow time "for the purpose of paralyzing action or of emasculating the court's decision." said Sobeloff, adding that the "prestige of this court is such that people will be disposed to abide by the law and not invent spurious reasons for delay...
...Brotherly dictator. Elected President in 1950 in a one-candidate race, Odria said recently that he intended to step down at the end of his six-year term, handing his office over to a constitutionally elected successor. Many of his countrymen doubted whether the strongman, only 57, really meant it, but last week, in a published interview with touring New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, Odria repeated his intention with notable firmness. He gave two reasons for wanting to hand over power, putting them, perhaps unintentionally, in an ironical order: "In the first place, I am too tired after years...
When Ballet Theater first bounced on the scene 15 years ago, it called itself "a museum of the dance." The label was meant to indicate that all styles, old and new, would be on exhibit. Over the years, the lively museum gave U.S. ballet a new turn: it kicked new life into the mummified remains of classical ballet (which it performed with loving care) and pioneered an electric, freshly dramatic modern style. Last week, to wind up its15th anniversary celebration, Ballet Theater gathered its stars and most famous graduates, moved into Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House for a three...
...very essence of the decade. They all subscribed to at least three articles of faith. They believed first that science would prove the salvation of humanity, and they had unlimited confidence in the ability of the human reason . . . to solve any problem. Second, they proudly called themselves liberals, which meant that they advocated freedom of speech and laughed at Calvin Coolidge, but they were not democrats, for they shared H. L. Menckon's contempt for the 'booboisie." Third, they thought of themselves as the civilized minority. . . It meant one who a drank in defiance of the Prohibition amendment, b. looked...
...night skyline of Manhattan, I was reminded of a poem that I composed some 40 years ago ... I recall only two lines: Did ever a dream city rise from the sea That was fairer, more fleeting and fragile than thee? If you had asked me what the last adjectives meant exactly, I couldn't have told...