Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other Masters, like jolly school teachers, find only a certain whimsical humor in the supposition that any sane, intelligent undergraduate would want to live outside the amenable ivy walls of their domains. They seem puzzled, and try to figure out what whims of motivation could be making certain students act so strangely. Mr. Conway, after he admits there was much pressure to live out, blandly observes that the policy of private residence was "a good thing in itself, demonstrating the values of House life." That is, everyone who lives outside the warm House walls this year will find...
Moral Atrophy. Seven months ago Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka's Red government, which wants to silence all "destructive" criticism but hesitates to act too precipitately, gave Marek Hlasko a passport to visit Western Europe. In Paris he was interviewed by the weekly L'Express. Was he a Communist? "There is no such thing as a Communist." What were the differences between France and Poland? "I think that people here are able, at least to some extent, to get an element of joy out of life." What was it like to live under Communism? "The misfortune...
...history, a federal court last week restricted the President's powers to adjust tariffs. The three-judge U.S. Customs Court in New York ruled 2 to i that the President cannot alter the recommendations of the U.S. Tariff Commission under the "escape clause" of the Trade Agreements Act, which permits the President to adjust tariffs or impose quotas to help U.S. industries that can prove they are being damaged by imports...
...indicted for the act are all vehement anti-Semites. These five are local fanatics backed by an Arlington, Virginia printer who publishes reams of hate literature under the name of the National Committee to Free America From Jewish Domination...
...overt act of this and other bombings in the South during recent months is a product of two trends. One, as McGill and others point out, is the high-minded, quasi-legal defiance of the Supreme Court decisions by Southern political leaders. Their actions lead to violent defiance of law and order by those who lack the intelligence to act in a legal manner. As McGill observed, "You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old, old story.... When the wolves of hate are loosed...