Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production of Handel's Julius Caesar. Updated, polished, and stocked chock full of yucks, in Sellar's hands this baroque warhorse becomes a close cousin of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta. Or two or three or four operettas. This production is four hours long. Granted, Handel wrote music as God meant music to be, but the theory that "Excess is best" holds only for sex and money...
...soon as someone attempts to answer a section leaders question, I like to excitedly break in and say something like. "Fah! Your words are open to blatant misunderstanding! Surely we must establish a common vocabulary if we can ever hope to fathom even a modicum of what Pope meant. That is to say, what he 'meant', what he MEANT, and-or what he "MEANT'! It is simply meaningless to go on unless common meanings are first established and maintained...
...meant nothing except that she gave herself...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan is sounding the alarm. While other politicians talk moderately of reform, the Democratic Senator from New York wants to scrap the basic federal welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). That system, established 50 years ago to provide temporary relief for widows, was never meant to address the long-term problem of poor children in broken homes, he argues, and it certainly has proved incapable of coping with the "changed reality" of a country with 3.8 million poor, single-parent families...
When a company is successfully taken over, its headquarters town becomes especially vulnerable. Blue Bell, the manufacturer of Wrangler jeans, shut down its Greensboro, N.C., headquarters after the company was acquired by VF Corp. That put 300 people out of work and meant the end of Blue Bell's strong support of Greensboro's arts and civic activities. Thirty miles to the west, Winston-Salem was dealt a similar blow after R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands in 1985. Last month RJR Nabisco announced it will move its corporate headquarters from Winston-Salem to Atlanta, taking along not only some...