Word: cutthroats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socialist's emotional tenets about the capitalist order. In consequence, he has the Socialist's undisguised contempt for capitalism, reinforced by the aristocratic Brahman's contempt for the bania (shopkeeper) caste. He speaks of the "bania civilization of the capitalist West," of the West's "cutthroat civilization." Utterly unlike Gandhi, he admires modern production methods, and wants to bring them to India (he has announced that India will in time develop her own atomic energy program). But as a Socialist he believes that capitalism, after its prodigies of production, is bound to make a bloody...
...remedy for this cutthroat method of beating the numbers racket, which would still allow those who sincerely want to move as a group to do so, is comparatively simple. A group should submit its intention to move as a unit to the Dean of Residence prior to lot-drawing. The group would then take its chance as a unit, drawing only one number. Alternatively, a group could average its number, as Wellesley groups must do under a similar system. This would give both the individual girl and those who want the privilege of staying together an even chance to pull...
...hero of Prince of Foxes is Andrea Orsini (Tyrone Power), who is not only a talented diplomat, but also a swordsman, painter, great lover, ordnance expert, politician and military strategist. Into the bargain, he is a peasant-born rogue posing as a noble cutthroat in the service of ruthless Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles). While carving out a promising career in treachery, Orsini comes heroically to his senses on a tough mission: to conquer an almost impregnable little duchy by seducing the duchess (Wanda Hendrix) and assassinating the duke (Felix Aylmer...