Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greater Boston Meet has always meant more to local residents, and Spengler, a native of Arlington, could cast aside his role as a consistent supporting runner in favour of a first-place medal. Colburn, too, has shown flashes of brilliance and is a threat to run away with it all any time he is near enough to scent victory...
...detail and perfection to an impossible excess. Of course, the film is being billed as a kind of epic-satire, and this kind of excess is the staple of satire. But to satirize history is absurd. A historical film can only try to depict and explain; satire is meant to correct, and history cannot be corrected. For this reason Richardson is at his worst when he attempts to satirize the Victorian establishment, and unfortunately, he attempts this rather often...
Eugene Switkes, one of the graduate students that organized the petition, said that by "open" the students had meant "no one would be denied admission at the door...
...press conference later, the two men explained that the black stockings represented poverty; the black fists meant black power and black unity. Said Smith: "We are black and proud to be black. White America will say 'an American won,' not 'a black American won.' If it had been something bad, they would have said 'a Negro.' " Added Carlos, somewhat disjointedly: "White people seem to think we're animals. I want people to know we're not animals, not inferior animals, like cats and rats. They think we're some sort...
What Exley (the character) cannot come to terms with is his inability to own the streets paved with gold, his failure to capture the imagination of the crowd, his realization that he was never even meant to be a contender for the crown. He is, in effect, an ordinary man forced to stand on the sidelines and cheer bitterly. "I fought because I understood, and could not bear to understand, that it was my destiny-unlike that of my father, whose fate it was to hear the roar of the crowd-to sit in the stands with most...