Word: axing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MacLeish has a universal axe to grind and he does it without the dogma or confusion which usually attend the dramatic genre. He retells the story of Job in contemporary setting and retells it in poetry. J.B. is a successful business man married to a pretty wife, father of four children and president of a bank, endowed with all the material blessings our time can bestow. And he is a "good and loyal servant" to the God who tempts him in response to the taunts of Satan. His children die by accident, war and murder; his home and his bank...
...When the axe of censorship falls upon a college campus, it generally deals the deathblow to a vital means of free expression. Student opinion, though aroused, is often helpless in the face of absolute University rule, and a crusade for academic freedom tends to be waged within the confines of a paper...
...enough. The Department submitted a projected 1958-59 budget requesting $120,000 more than the total appropriation for last year. The administration, however, decided that only a raise of $20,000 was feasible. The Athletic Department was forced to make economics somewhere; and, as it worked out, the axe fell most heavily on lacrosse and golf...
...anniversary issue, Mad conjures up magazines like Caveman's Weekly (sample article: "Is the Stone-Axe the Ultimate Weapon?") and the Pilgrim's Home Journal ("I Should've Kept My Big Mouth Shut," by John Alden), gives advice on how to play golf ("The grip should be about the same as one would use clutching a dead trout"), and quotes some woman-meets-native dialogue from the National Osographic: "Evelyn stepped forward and asked in Swahili, 'What I want to know, and I want you to give me a straight answer to, is-I mean...
...photography and will flip the pages until they come to the generally tolerable House features. The article on Dudley is especially well written, while the Dunster House feature is too gung-ho even for Dunster House. If the reader can get past the authors who have an axe or two to grind and the writers who try too hard to prove they are talented, he will probably thumb his way to the back of the book and the articles on extra-curricular activities...