Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bad for the new girl in school...
...grounds for its being suppressed. Important issues never come conveniently packaged. Let's suppose that Avatar is the worst written of the underground newspapers (which it is not). Who is to say that tomorrow some Cambridge magnate might not decide that the CRIMSON is offensive and badly written. The parallel is admittedly a bad one because Harvard University wields a big stick in town and the local officials wouldn't want to tangle with Harvard Law professors over the issue. The point is, however, that the reason they would never crack down on the CRIMSON is because it doesn...
There is another, more subtle, more insidious excuse for not worrying about Avatar's fate. "It's a bad magazine, the writing is poor, and there's that kook who thinks he's God in it." To begin with Avatar has improved immensely and personally I really like the rag. Go into the University Restaurant some afternoon when a new issue has just come out. Everyone has a copy and many a professor has been caught chuckling over its refreshing tone...
...fair to suspect that the odyssey was aimed in part at placating Ulbricht, who has been reading some bad news with a Moscow dateline in the papers these days. When the Soviet ambassador handed a note to the Bonn government on the Berlin issue last week, the Kremlin seemed to be serving notice that it now wants to deal directly with Bonn on issues involving the divided city. In the past, it has almost always let Ulbricht present the East Bloc's terms. The note repeats Moscow's apparent willingness to recognize the four-power partition of Berlin...
...Oxford don, Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) is whacking bad at human relations but so cracking good at puzzle solving that the government employs him to find a cure for the common code used by enemy agents. When hiring new girls for his staff, Sebastian confronts them with questions like "How many words can you make from thorough!" And "What is Naitsabes spelled backward?" A Queeg in mufti, he compulsively fingers a rubber ball as he orders his overworked underlings to "switch your gorgeous minds to overdrive." From time to time, Sebastian mutters antiheroic cliches to himself, like...