Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this mystical melange, hippie communities are developing clearly identifiable sects, with their own clergy, formal meetings and even liturgy. These groups borrow unabashedly from all three main strands of the psychedelic faith. The Neo-American Church, whose pastors are known as "boo-hoos" (the absurd title is meant to keep "an element of humor in our institutional affairs"), uses prayers from Buddhism, Tantric Yoga and Mohawk moccasins in its pseudo-marriage ceremonies. One popular center of hippie worship in Los Angeles is the Oracle-Cosmic Joy Fellowship, whose prelates are known as "coordinators." At its regular services, worshipers sit cross...
...problems of both space and timing. To make room for the new Madison Square Garden, the fourth in the city's history, as well as an adjacent 29-story office building, the superstructure of cavernous Pennsylvania Station had to be demolished and all its facilities moved underground. This meant scheduling construction so that the 200,000 travelers pouring into the station each day would suffer minimum inconvenience. Although computers were used to lick the logistics, the station's baggage-claim area still has had to be moved no fewer than 16 times since construction began back...
Eight divisions and 70% of air strength were taken from the Italian campaign and diverted to a pointless landing in the south of France; this meant the end of hopes for an Allied occupation of Austria and influence in the Balkans. Macmillan mournfully charges that the Roosevelt policy, designed, with Stalin, to keep the Allies in the West, was "to exercise a baneful, and nearly fatal influence over the future of Greece." He notes that the postwar burden of correcting this "almost unilateral American decision [has] fallen largely on the American people . . . Thus were sown the seeds of the partition...
...careful with a Murdoch ending: Is she, perhaps, spoofing the conventional novel as well as the curative powers of love? Yes, but her occasional barbs are more like twinges of a habit not yet kicked. This is a well-written and well-meant novel of lovers gone astray but saved by love. If more is meant, Iris Murdoch, a gentle ironist, conceals it too well...
...wrote down student for his occupation and we thought he meant fulltime. But he doesn't do any work in the day, so I guess he's more of a student than anything else," he said...