Word: cheate
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...significance." What the moviegoer actually gets is a fitfully funny knockabout with an ancient theme, the falling-out of thieves. Three young punks (Jean Claude Brialy, Laurent Terzieff, Franco Interlenghi) flap-foot about Rome, trying to sell some stolen guns (their fence is busy with a funeral), trying to cheat some prostitutes (the girls cheat them), trying to betray one another, trying to impress someone (they don't impress anyone...
...Wheatstone Bridge-double differential-CH3C6H2(NO2)2-set. These people are mere cogs, automata; they simply feel to make sure you've punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcards. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
COLD WIND IN AUGUST. With less daring, more training and a bit more money. Director Alexander Singer composed a melancholy essay on love as a girl grows older. Lola Albright is both touching and depressing as an aging stripper who robs the cradle to cheat the rocking chair...
Wrathful Prophet. As he grew deafer, he became more paranoiacally suspicious of everyone. He accused musicians of deliberately misreading his music, publishers of trying to cheat him, friends of betraying him. Cooped up alone in his house, he feuded endlessly with servants over trivia, described in minute detail how "brutish" they were. But he reserved his sternest strictures for his nephew Karl...
Second, he says we cheat. We claim not to recruit, but do; claim not to practice, but do. I say, let him cite chapter and verse and back up that dirty crack with specific proof, or let him publicly retract what he said--and on the front page in large type. Over several centuries, Harvard has stood for one thing if for nothing else--integrity. I, for one, consider this sort of mud slinging to be inexcusable and unworthy of any representative of Harvard. I also think it marks the lowest ebb in my experiences in CRIMSON editorial responsibility...