Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over 900 Columbia students signed a petition condemning the offer of a faculty chair to Kissinger. MIT professor Noam Chomsky, a previous Nieman speaker, suggested at the time that Kissinger be appointed to a "Chair of Death and Destruction...
...equally bitter ballad, "Bring Back the Chair," Paxton evinces his skill with irony. He mockingly suggests that America should revive executions to escape from complete boredom, chanting, "Bring back the chair, strap someone there, strap down a pair." Swept away by the morbid message, Paxton lapses into moments of poor enunciation and phrasing, but the song is funny enough to short out delivery problems. Again, the music provides a steady circuit for the electricity of Paxton's work...
...doubtful that so cursory an investigation would satisfy the skeptics. After all, other black prisoners purportedly died, according to police announcements, from such unlikely causes as slipping in a prison shower and falling against a chair. Four police interrogators who were accused of culpable homicide in the death of African Nationalist Joseph Mdluli last year were acquitted even though one judge later commented that Mdluli's neck wounds were "most probably" inflicted by police...
...climax of the production comes when the chamelion-like Flynn shows the jury that "things are not always as they appear to be." He manipulates an entire jury which is impressively acted by a single man who jumps from chair to chair protraying every absurd stereotype, reminding the audience that they are equally foolish...
...Greek government had no voice in selecting a scholar to fill the chair, Peterson said...