Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this essentially Christian book might do some good." The annotations appear in the form of footnotes. Thus Hugo, in chapter four, describes the bishop's doctrine: "Err, yield to temptation, sin, but be just!" Says a footnote: "A very easy and peaceable moral thesis which had nothing in common with Catholic doctrine." And in chapter seven, when the bishop debates whether to return stolen goods or hand them to the poor, a footnote warns that "the slogan 'the end justifies the means' is not admissible in a bishop or anyone else. By not returning the goods...
...four killers had something else in common: as children they had been exposed to unbridled violence between parents and other adults, as well as to frequent brutal whippings. And all had suffered emotionally from loss or separation of parents. As a result, argued Dr. Satten, they had become "predisposed to severe lapses in ego control," were incapable of counting to ten before acting, but lashed out impulsively and instantaneously...
...fathers and husbands, John Wood, has been stealing the firm's money to speculate on the Chicago stock exchange. What interests Author Suckow is how the old Iowans she knew so well square the dreadful event with conscience, with character based on Biblical supports, with the responses of common humanity. Some, including old friends, are uncompromisingly unforgiving. Others, knowing that John Wood broke the code in the hope of easing life for his sick wife, want to be charitable. But for young Philip, life seems smashed, and his agony is the greater because he had worshiped his father...
...judicial murder of Socrates was a mirror of the city-states' violent dealings with each other. Finally, the Hellenes united against the Persians, and even this alliance (the Confederacy of Delos, founded in 478 B.C.) was characteristically betrayed when the Athenians rifled the common treasury. This act offers Historian Toynbee an interesting and ironic sidelight. The Athenians used the funds to stave off mass unemployment by building public works. Thus the monuments that crown the Acropolis testifying to the glory that was Greece are actually the result of a kind of grandiose PWA project subsidized with stolen funds...
Judges of the show, which was held last week in the Leverett House junior common room, were Leonard Baskin, artist and professor of Fine Arts at Smith College, and Georgy Kepes, professor of Architecture at M.I.T...