Word: burden
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TINY ALICE. Mystification is the end result of Edward Albee's quasi-metaphysical suspense melodrama centering on the relationship between a lay brother (John Gielgud) and the richest woman in the world (Irene Worth). The burden of feeling rests on the language and a supremely competent cast...
...nationalism, which substitutes the nation for God, or from messianic imperialism (for instance, the "Holy Russia" of the czarist era, perhaps not entirely dead in the atheistic Marxist present), which sees one nation as universal redeemer. The special American destiny, suggested President Johnson, is both a blessing and a burden. "We have no promise from God that our greatness will endure. We have been allowed by Him to seek greatness with the sweat of our hands and the strength of our spirit. If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests...
...lawyers, the unanswered questions suggested a solid case of violated due process. Coerced confessions, however true, have been outlawed as evidence by the Supreme Court since the early 1920s. The court holds that only voluntary confessions are trustworthy; it believes, said Justice Felix Frankfurter, that "society carries the burden of proving its charges against the accused not out of his own mouth." Accordingly, the defendant must go free if the evidence used to convict him includes a true yet tainted confession...
...obstacle to putting Padlack at 157 is that there is no one else to wrestle in the higher weights. Lee has four boys he wants to put at 157 and no one for 167, 177, or 191. Padlack being the best of the four, he has had the burden of wrestling the larger opponents...
...Harvard Review has announced the election of its officers for 1965. Elected were: Publisher, Ordway P. Burden '66, of Eliot House and New York City; Editor-in-Chief. Harrison Young III '66, of Leverett House and Princeton, N.J.; Associate Editors, Philip H. Heckscher '66, of Eliot House and New York City; and Rand E. Rosenblatt '66, of Adams House and Rome, Italy; General Manager, Robert S. Stern '66, of Leverett House and Springfield...