Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more or less by accident. A divinity student and radio sports announcer, he recorded a platter entitled The Game of Life-a hectic play-by-play account of a football game, with Jesus coaching the Christian team and Satan sending in plays to the Forces of Evil. Originally meant only for use by a Texas church group. Game proved to be such a galloping commercial success that McCracken decided to go into the business for good...
...linen floors. But soon the street is reached, where Christmas breaks through again and Filene's happy row of six-foot candy canes is aimed squarely at Jordan Marsh's row of trees. But like the cannons aimed at the manger in the Cambridge Common, it is all meant in good...
...whose love of good theatre outstrips their creative talent; and in his one successful comedy. She Stoops To Conquer, he was scarcely able to reverse the dismal, tear-stained course of eighteenth century comedy. Though he looked back discerningly to the broad humor of the "the last age" (he meant the Elizabethans), his work fails to recapture the extravagant buffoonery of their plays...
None of the figures is meant to be any particular person. Jones sees his echoing monochrome backgrounds as crowded with people all waiting to be pulled out. "I don't know how many figures are standing there waiting. If the face I first find should disappear, there would be many others to take up the emptiness." Jones does not pretend to have a message about suffering humanity; yet his figures do seem laden with fateful secrets they stubbornly refuse to tell. "People are very mysterious." says Jones quite simply, and in his painting the mystery is there in full...
...opposite situation exists for freshmen in many Radcliffe dormitories, according to Catherine D. Williston, Dean of Freshmen. The "economy double," a room originally meant to be a single which now houses two girls on bunk beds, can make life difficult for roommates who are not close friends...