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...image of how he once smote a circumcised dog of a Turk. His love of Desdemona is a kind of image of love. His heart breaks when lago tarnishes that image, long before Desdemona herself is actually destroyed. Neither Olivier nor Gunn nor Jones has been able to convey this. Thus none of them has struck any consuming emotional fire out of the Othello-Des-demona relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Wounded Animal | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

...trying, with great difficulty, to convey the ludicrous juxtaposition we saw. The almost farcical nature of our system of "justice," which confines both inmates and guards for almost incomprehensible reasons having to do with preservation of the myth of good order, and the government protected by that myth. A myth that kills and destroys in numbers and quantities which I fear the sane mind dares not grasp. In a new and penetratingly significant way, this experience led again to the realization that if "criminal" is associated with guilt, and if it bespeaks of injustice, then criminal can describe only those...

Author: By Alan Nelson, | Title: Holy War in the Nation's Capital | 4/24/1971 | See Source »

Special interest groups could use HITS to convey information through a medium that is much more effective than leafleting or bullhorns. And with 12 channels running 24 hours a day there should be plenty of room for a wide variety of groups to have airtime...

Author: By Craig Unger, | Title: Video Communication Soon to be Possible Throughout Harvard | 4/22/1971 | See Source »

What old grad can forget the scourge of the term paper: those sunny afternoons in the dusky stacks, the nightlong bouts with procrastination, the notes on white index cards that convey recrimination rather than inspiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Term-Paper Hustlers | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

...second is also an affirmative defense. It argues that the alleged violators are actually the victims. The anti-warriors went to the Teach-In not to listen, but to convey to the various responsible personages (the Thai Ambassador, the Vietnamese Embassy official, and the White House aide) their disapproval of the present war in Indochina, through the exercise of their freedom of speech. By the shouting, clapping, and even the disruption, the protesters intended and did communicate to the above persons their sentiments. This argument should be weighed in light of the fact that virtually all other effective avenues...

Author: By B. KOYUNG Tung, | Title: The Mail TWO POSSIBLE DEFENSES | 4/13/1971 | See Source »

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