Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these activities, Father Feeney was expelled from the Jesuit order. Archbishop Richard J. Cushing silenced him, and put St. Benedict's under interdict. By silencing is meant that Father Feeney is not allowed to preach or teach until the ban is lifted. With St. Benedict's under interdict, anyone who goes there is denied the sacraments of the Church and cannot receive the Holy Eucharist...
...complicated the situation by making a statement on November 23 in a long-distance telephone conversation to the city editor of the Kansan, daily of the University of Kansas. Malott was president of that University prior to his post at Cornell. He announced that his remarks had not been meant for publication...
...standard argument given by those who refuse to submit to this unwritten law is that works like "The Quiet House" and "Orpheus" are not meant for the general public, but for a chosen few who are interested--relatives and sponsors, judging by last night's audience. But a production with sets, costumes, and lighting effects in a hired hall, expensive or not, is a long, involved way to give entertainment to a choice audience that would probably get as much enjoyment from reading the play...
Gigi is as French as Colette. But where Colette's Frenchness is everything meant by "Gallic," Director Raymond Rouleau's is everything called up by the Gare du Nord-bustling, clamorous, boisterous. This coarsens a play whose slightness should be equaled by its lightness, whose charm lies in the contrast between its manners and its morals. Such gentility may make the play seem more immoral, but without it Gigi is merely raffish, and less entertaining than it should be. Only such a tittle jewel of a scene as the scene of the jewels comes off completely. Otherwise, Gigi...
Gandhi & Greatness. Hairy charm is not, however, Davidson's only contribution to art. His admirers believe that, at 68, he is the greatest living sculptor. His critics argue that this is true only if, by sculpture, is meant the art of making speaking likenesses. For jovial Jo has never been one to conjure up abstractions or depict the unseen "soul" of his sitters. He takes people, quite literally, at their face value. When the face wears a mask (as he finds most faces do), Jo waits for the moment when the mask slips-and pounces...