Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Ghosts was first produced, Clement Scott, a noted London critic, called Henrik Ibsen's play "an open drain, a loathsome sore unbandaged, a dirty act done publically..." But as performed by the Lowell House Drama Group, Ghosts is not nearly so shocking as it is dull, and eventually depressing. For when Ibsen's theme emerges through the verbiage and some discouragingly flabby acting, it retains a profound meaning...
...weeks ago, Sports Illustrated picked up Fuller's classroom discussions on the subject of subterfuge in sports. Fuller defended the baseball catcher's "ethically acceptable" act of pulling a pitch into the strike zone, but condemned the practice of feigning injuries in football contests...
Fuller likened the act of making close pitches look like strikes to a lawyer's advocacy--the catcher is simply "presenting a persuasive argument." But, he contended, a football player pretending to be hurt is committing a moral wrong, and engaging in "true deception...
With some feeling, Kamisar countered that the catchers' tactics may be compared only to an improper legal argument, not to a legitimate one. Furthermore, he said, the "If one can do it" principle can be used to condemn any act whatever...
...those which it will not, President Pusey's decision to continue administration of all National Science Foundation fellowships was a wise one. But the foundations of this decision made by Faculty vote last Tuesday conflict with the University's entire rationale in dealing with the National Defense Education Act...