Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediate relief and satisfaction turned into anger and indignation. Both parties involved in the debate resorted, on alternate occasions, to attempts to disrupt the meeting. Those unhappy with the decision to overturn last week's action attempted to adjourn the meeting. Members remarked that other parts of the agenda meant nothing in the new context. Although I deeply respect many members of this faction, I believed that the designated agenda for the meeting should not have been ignored as a knee-jerk reaction to the passage of a resolution they opposed. While Frank Lockwood proposed his resolution concerning new undergraduate...
These illustrious titles can also be a bit problematic; I remember earlier this year trying to explain to an interviewer not familiar with the Harvard system what was meant by "Editor, Harvard Crimson...
...further irony was that regionalism, supposed to be the expression of American democracy, was in its pictorial essence the kissing cousin of official Soviet art in the '30s. If socialist realism meant sanitized images , of collective rural production, new tractors, bonny children and muscular workers, so did the capitalist realism proposed by Benton and Wood. Both were arts of idealization and propaganda. In aesthetic terms, little that Benton painted for the next 40 years would have seemed altogether out of place on the ceilings of the Moscow subway. Apart from this, the whole matter of Benton's racism is still...
Jackson announces in the liner notes that each side of Blaze of Glory is meant to be listened to continuously, "as if it were a song cycle." The operative verb here is "as if it were," because no matter what Jackson says, removing the spaces from in between songs does not a song cycle make. Take, for instance, the opener, "Tomorrow's World." It begins promisingly, with breathy vocals sitting side-saddle on a set of naked guitar arpeggios, driven by an obsessive pattern and punctuated by an incredibly satsifying bass drum. Particularly effective, too, are a series of abrupt...
Bucknell had defeated Queens by four points earlier in the season. This meant that the Crimson had to defeat Queens by four points or more to be seeded number two behind Slippery Rock...