Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Times has thus published an Election Handbook, which contains between its paper (and therefore cheap) covers a cogent summary of information relevant to the forthcoming election. The book is not meant for Harvard government majors, perhaps not even for the most impenetrable science types. It is meants for the average voter who, alas, probably won't read it. Nevertheless, the Election Handbook is a valuable public service...
What Friedman meant--and made quite clear--was that a federal law requiring the fair employment of Negroes would be unenforceable in the face of popular bias, and that because of the resulting corruption of the market mechanism in this sphere, the Negro would continue to suffer serious underemployment. Under the conditions of a free market, he went on, the prejudiced employer would be free to refuse employment to Negroes, but by so doing he would force the price of Negro labor down and give incentive for less biased employers to hire more Negroes. In this context, Professor Friedman...
...entangles the Master Builder in adultery with an innocent townswoman is "the net." This repetition does convey the rigidity of Jocelin's mind. But it is also boring, and has to be justified as a part of Golding's slightly condescending fable-telling manner. Stylistic consistency is also apparently meant to account for the rather childish Anglo-Saxon in which Golding's characters think and converse...
These 20 well-tooled tales are of "how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy," when "we" meant a part-time correspondent for a Canadian newspaper and his redheaded wife Hadley. They were "Tatie" and "Binney" to each other and nothing to anybody else except a handful of fellow writers who shared the 25-year-old Midwesterner's tough belief in his own talent. He had sold a few short stories for marks in Germany and peanuts in the little magazines like transatlantic review. Gertrude Stein had told...
Consider the two pieces played by Michael Flaksman '66, principal cellist of the HRO. The Vivaldi Sonates en Concert in E minor for cello and orchestra were meant for cello and continuo. They sound soupy with a full orchestra. Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 is more at home with a saxophone band than this Vivaldi is with such a lush orchestral arrangement...