Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restrained by three teammates There was fighting on the field for the rest of the game while St. John's cheer-leaders cried out "Back to Africa." As the game ended, several hundred Eastern fans rushed across the field and up into the St. John's section. Perhaps they meant to start a fight, or perhaps they did not. In any case, pushing matches started at the exits, and a full-scale race riot ensued. Gangs of Negroes roamed through the parking lote yelling "Get the whites," while whites were trying desperately to get away. An hour later, 100 police...
...Nuclear Issue. In Paris last week, French Defense Minister Pierre Messmer was coolly correct about Operation Big Lift. "Tres interessant," he sniffed, courteously refraining from saying I-told-you-so about the widely whispered suggestion that this meant, as Charles de Gaulle had often predicted, the U.S. would retreat from Europe and leave the Continental powers to their own devices. But the Gaullist paper La Nation spelled out a reasonable
...much that he bought a $30,000 house in a cottage colony eight miles outside town. Liz and Dick are house hunting too. Playwright Tennessee Williams, whose Iguana is set in an unspoiled Mexican resort in 1940, took one look at Vallarta and exclaimed: "This is precisely what I meant. This is Acapulco 20 years...
...preposterous plot is meant to be a mocking comment on contemporary society, and Composer Gian Carlo Menotti intended to blend it all into a witty comic opera. But when The Last Savage was given its world premiére at Paris' Opera-Comique last week, the satiric fun was blanketed with annoyed disappointment. In his first comedy since The Telephone in 1947, Menotti had fallen well below his usual mark, with a tiresome, lurching, seldom funny libretto and a derivative score that even in its academic jokes was hardly musique sérieuse...
...intent. But the 19 other dancers-nine male, ten female-in her company are all masters of the "virile gestures" that, she says, "are evocative of the only true beauty." Movement is full of the strain and pain academic ballet attempts to conceal, and each step is meant as a metaphor that tells of the life of the heart. Barefoot and poised in an artificial balance achieved by great feats of technique, the dancers rarely touch except to depict conflict or lust. Each dance seems a ritual from the infernal rites Graham sees in the cave of the heart, spoken...