Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purpose of the university, argued Reagan, is "to ensure perpetuation of a social structure-a nation, if you will." By this he meant not preservation of the status quo but a concern "for the individual and his right to fulfillment." In an age in which "acceptance is given more and more to the concept of lifting men by mass movements and collective action," said Reagan, the universities above all should remember the "road from the swamp to the stars is studded with the names of individuals who achieved fulfillment and lifted mankind another rung...
...million worth of holiday wrapping is being tucked around package goods to give it a glossy, eye-catching sheen for the Christmas trade, which accounts for 15% of all sales. The color combinations of blue, green and lavender and the expensive embossed paper and fabric wrappings are mainly meant to attract feminine eyes...
...When the Red army stopped at the Vistula River in 1944 and folded its arms while the Nazis bloodily put down the Warsaw uprising, and when Stalin refused to allow the U.S. even to airlift supplies to the dying Polish Resistance, it was obvious, says Kennan, that Stalin meant to swallow Poland, "lock, stock and barrel...
Ansara explained that student power meant "we, not the Administrative Board, make the decisions." He added that the demonstrators could re- quest the University to "form a committee with us in the next 24 hours" to work out the details of the transfer of power to the students...
...opening act is meant to establish the idioms and manners of Eastern European Jewish life: it succeeds only in making audience and cast uncomfortable. The three batlonim, those parable-telling lay-abouts of Yiddish humor, act as though they were unrepentant members of the Gas House Gang. Timothy Hall offends especially, and all about him actors are moving too slowly and having great trouble with the foreign-sounding words. Only Howard Cutler, as Khonnon, the young student whose anguished soul is the dybbuk of the title, and Mark Ritts, as the prophetic messenger, carry off their parts. Both have voices...