Word: contradiction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Democrats seem to contradict the general political scene with their rise in membership during non-election years, the HYDC has had the usual problem of a student apathy to overcome. Membership figures give little indication of the number of participants. Last Wednesday, for instance, less than one-fifth of the members attended an important HYDC election meeting...
Herr Professor Doktor rose stiffly, shook everyone's hand, and left as the students watched the master's cigarette smoke become, at last, part of the clouded overall picture. They discussed Glaubich's ideas for a while, academically noting their structure and implications; no one sought to contradict him. When the students finally left for their poorly heated little rooms, the Amis were thinking that the U.S. surely must have been grossly naive to have acted so in contradiction to Glaubich's mature tenets. But they missed the nature of their naivete...
...portion of the tape played to Judge Aldrich yesterday seemed directly to contradict Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's testimony that Kamin was present in the hearing room when he discussed the purposes for which Kamin had been called. The tape included a phrase not recorded in the transcript: After McCarthy had explained the hearing's purpose and said Kamin would be the first witness, a voice said, "I believe Mr. Kamin is in the side room...
...production of 319 is no better than its contents. Its writing is on the whole wooden and filled with cliches. There is a conspicuous lack of a copy desk. Not only do a few individual articles directly contradict one another, but there is far too much editorialization, particularly in the articles about undergraduate organizations. And words such as ensconced, collegian, frosh, and soph, should never, ever, see print. A few articles, however, showed a real attempt to get away from the rigid confines imposed by the nature of a yearbook. Those on the chess and bridge clubs...
...show depth and good characterization. Denholm Elliott, as Wilson the clerk, Peter Finch, as Father Rank, and Gerard Oury as Yusef all contribute positively in small ways. Yusef's dialogues with Scobie provide some of the scarce light spots of the evening, but because of their disturbing implications never contradict the overall tone of the film...