Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what Eliot meant-perhaps he was saying that the contents of his poem were stylistically varied and with plenty of change of pace. In other words, he could "do the police in different voices...
...When I was a little boy, my mother told me that anyone could become President. Now I know what she meant...
...better rehabilitation than a stiff dose of churchgoing. To enforce his sentence, he requires each offender to write a weekly letter describing what he learned from the Sunday sermon. The effect of the preaching is sometimes questionable. One 15-year-old girl wrote what Chronicles 1:29 meant to her: "We are time watchers and punch clocks." Another boy complained: "This lesson I didn't understand at all. I did not know what he was talking about...
...Committee on Houses (COH) and crossed our fingers. In time, both groups sent back ambiguous letters of rejection; and they invited us in to talk about it. We could do nothing except change our minds and agree with them or wait a year and try again. Doing either meant abdicating our responsibility to the student body. Yet the alternative was confrontation politics, something that the HUC, which acts with its hands rather than its feet, could not pull off. As long as we allow the faculty and administration the prerogative to reject valid student proposals on social issues...
...example, the administration announced last year that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had fallen into the "red." What that meant, really, was that the Faculty had spent more than the planners had decided it deserved. They had decided that the University's money could be better used elsewhere--like for the underpass, which cost $2 million...