Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prenatal Pose. ''Could I fit into a suitcase?" she asked. Looking at her trim 5-ft., 100-lb. figure, Bernd gulped his drink and said they could try. If caught, Maria thought it meant three years in jail for her, ten for Bernd. "They'd accuse you of being a Western slave trader." They paid $6.50 for a brown plasterboard suitcase that...
...rich, vibrant soprano without jarring Purcell's carefully organized elaborations and achieved an intensity which is essential to a character as impassioned as Dido. Miss Miller's very lack of gestures or changes of expression conveyed her strength; her cry to Aeneas of "Away!" displayed how much Dido meant it. Mary Lou Sullivan was a brilliant contrast to her as Belinda, Dido's sister. Her voice had just the lightness and grace the part needs, and she did not burlesque her role as the traditional confidante...
...persistence of the "war-guilt" idea had the same frustrating effect on inter-war diplomacy. It was obvious that the New Europe which the war to end all wars had been meant to create was a fiction. But the war-guilt clause, precisely because it was unpredecented and, indeed, a revolutionary conception in European diplomacy, made even the restoration of the old Europe impossible...
Sartre achieves in The Flies, as he does in most of his plays, the geometric clarity which his nondramatic writing lacks. The structure he imparts to the Orestes myth is philosophic and monumental; the audience is not meant to participate in the passions of the characters, but to analyze them. Sartre uses the classic French methods of adapting ancient myths, and shapes his myth with a grandiose stylization, adding a philosophic dimension to the drama of religious mystery...
...such, it is not meant to be seen but to be solved. However, to Resnais' riddle there is not, helas, just one solution; there is an infinite series of solutions, and some of them suppose an esthetic, metaphysical, and even mathematical sophistication that few in any audience possess...