Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went into an all-day fit of hysterics because her young son refused to keep his coat on outdoors. Another told Colorado's investigators: "I have never felt really loved all my life. When the baby was born, I thought he would love me. When he cried, it meant he didn't love...
...haphazard junket across Lower Middle Earth. Their mission: to dispose of an evil Ring by tossing it into the Zaza Pitts of Fordor before being captured by the nasty nares. With self-consciously clever digressions on drugs, violence, and the difficulties of modern communication, this book is undoubtedly meant to be received as an Epic for Our Time...
...phrase, "the prevalent sense of hopelessness and inevitability." For we know the people who suffer from this syndrome: the frustrated psychiatrists and psychotherapists who so valiantly attempt to "cure" those of us who are young enough and hurt enough by society's prejudice to seek out their well-meant help...
...tired of the war"; yet half do not want to see the U.S. "cut and run" from Southeast Asia, and more than half believe the present pace of troop withdrawals is about right or too fast. Nearly half of the public would favor continued withdrawal even if it meant collapse of the Saigon government, and more than 40% feel that the country will probably go Communist despite U.S. efforts. Yet a majority still hope to preserve a non-Communist regime in Saigon...
...these are only pieces of Mr. Hyland's exercise in personal catharisis and public outrage. I confess that when I first read it. I didn't know whether it was meant to be taken seriously. Was it some kind of hoax? If I wanted to look through the literature and find an example of mindless, gastric-juice romanticism. I couldn't have found a better example. If I quoted it to my class, the students would think I'd made it up. It's the kind of piece-along with the accompanying report on the CFIA-that one is ordinarily...