Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many of Fitzgerald's collegiate characters, Steve Burnett, the hero of Senior Spring, ranges from boorishness to sophistication. But author Lumbard fails to justify Burentt's varying attitudes. If Lumbard meant to convey the restlessness of the period, he is not consistent in that attempt, and if he meant to give him any outstanding quality, it is lost in a maze of contradiction. Only with Cassy Kane does he achieve any greatness as a character. In a love affair marred by the shadow of a past abortion, and the grim truth of a present one, there is still...
Wink & Guffaw. Since the court ruling would cause a fantastic increase in tax valuations, the legislature changed the law to call for assessment at 50% of actual value. Then the state board of equalization, Governor Robert Crosby, chairman, set out to equalize the assessments from county to county. This meant that almost every real-estate owner in Nebraska was hit with an increase in taxes. In Crosby's home town, North Platte, town-lot tax valuations more than tripled. Although the State Supreme Court had forced the action, most of the public ire was directed at one man: Governor...
Almost everywhere that Crosby went, he was greeted with hostility that slowly turned into warmth. Everybody admitted that he meant well. After hearing his speech, the State Certified Public Accountants Association presented him with an electric lantern and a sign reading: "A modern Diogenes in search of an honest man." But this week, as the personal-property returns were beginning to come in, no one-not even the modern Diogenes-thought that many of them could be 100% honest...
...Burning Glass (by Charles Morgan) is one more melodrama in which a scientist discovers a new source of power -this time by harnessing the heat of the sun. Being the work of Charles Morgan, it is meant as far more-though at times it comes off as far less-than a mere thriller. The author of The Fountain is a stylishly earnest writer who, while posing philosophic debates over when the new weapon should be used, offers cultivated characters who spout Shakespeare and Keats and dress regularly for destruction...
Some of the material is valuable, some markedly trivial. Thomas Little, the collection's custodian, has great respect for its value to thesis researchers into history topics, but will wryly admit that "it may big too big for its own good." The library was meant primarily to be a personal moment to Roosevelt; there has been, however, a certain amount of friction between its useful and its sentimental sides." Little explained in a recent report on the collection, "As a separate library closely attended in its own quarters by a librarian, it gave excellent service. Now, as an element...