Word: backhandedness
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Slightly Bemused. Innkeeper Stewart's anger was a backhanded compliment to the power of a woman who. in an overcrowded journalistic specialty, has managed to find a place and a style her own. Quite by coincidence, Inez herself produced another reminder of her style last week with publication of...
Kadar acknowledged that there were still "class enemies" in Hungary, but said that "whatever the class enemies may do, they cannot do us as much harm as we can do ourselves with our own mistakes. The people demand humane treatment and confidence." Kadar even paid a backhanded compliment to democracy...
With this backhanded tribute to prepare the way, 70,000 Jehovah's Witnesses descended on Manhattan last week. That was 184,000 fewer than came to the International Assembly in 1958, but it was no sign of decline; there are now so many Witnesses (916,332) that not even...
Although a preponderance of administrators endorse the present ban, a few members of the Ivy committee have expressed considerable disagreement with it. Robert J. Kane, athletic director at Cornell, for example, said last November that the press had made the correct inference of his statement on the firing of football...
Cornell's main reason for exterminating James, presented by athletic director Robert J. Kane in a prepared statement, was a hit hasy: "Lefty was a competent teacher given too little time to teach," Kane declared. yesterday Kane told the CRIMSON that the press had made the correct inference of his...