Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...philosophize and indulge in banter with people of our own day who are looking at the painting. The philosophy got beyond me at times but it has to do with Time (represented by a grandfather clock) and white whales and is quite satisfactory; the banter, which I presume is meant to provide another frame of reference for the philosophy (besides the picture frame, which dominates the stage) is decidedly inferior. It is supposed to be humorous and leans heavily on the obvious (the Painter protests to Hawthorne who has stepped out of the picture: "Mr. Hawthorne, if you please! What...
...16th Century Portugal, the stock advice to give an ambitious young man was "Go East." The East meant silks and spices, porcelain and pearls, the fabulous fast & loose traffic with India, China and the Indies. After a single voyage, men sometimes retired for life...
When Moors Hall opened last year, the College closed 20 Walker and officials assured students it wouldn't be used again. A miscalculation in the size of this year's freshman class meant that more rooms were needed than expected, Dean Small said yesterday; therefore 20 Walker was reopened. Since no drop in enrollment is expected next year, it will continue to be used, she added...
Besides sustenance, the lunches were meant to provide bright talk and character assassinations, and the hero of the day was the man with the fastest comeback. The circle also respetted good writing. Among young U.S. writers of the '20s and '30s, acceptance at the Round Table was an accolade second only to a publisher's acceptance...
...bang, Novelist Tabori gives it a twisting curve; he adds a long Part Two describing an unlabeled Arabian revolutionary movement which has been fighting to overthrow the governor. The epilogue has little to do with the bulk of the novel, and it raises the disconcerting suspicion that Tabori meant Dr. Varga's story as some sort of significant parable. This suspicion is confirmed by the dust jacket, whereon the author calls his story "a comment on the tragedy of the liberal." All in all, this is a little like being taken on a tour of Coney Island and then...