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Prisons, scoffed Havemann, are "the university of crime," and the death penalty (abolished in West Germany) "is upheld only so that people can kill their political opponents." He laughed off the party's "pitiful" distortion of Hegel's dictum that freedom is the acceptance of necessity. Said Havemann: "One cannot attain freedom by doing 'voluntarily' what one must do in order to stay out of jail." As for capitalism, Havemann said that new traits make it "by no means all negative," and called for comparable Communist freedom to encourage "dissatisfaction with things as they...
...Radcliffe girl, her intelligence tends to emancipate her from traditional values. "When you're in love, it's all right" is becoming the new dictum. She attributes this trend in part to today's "sex-tittillating" society. "Ten years ago, Richard Burton and Liz Taylor would have taken separate hotel suites...
Fauves (or wild beasts, from a critic's derisive quip). The philosophy of painting that both groups followed was best summed up by an 1890 dictum of Theoretician and Painter Maurice Denis: "A picture, before being a horse, a nude, or some kind of anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors in a certain order." Although neither the Nabis nor the Fauves entirely abandoned the impressionist lessons of analyzing the fleeting scans of colored light rebounding from landscape, they flattened their tableaux and added vigorous, if vague and personal, symbolism to their work. In effect, they were...
...economic life: land. In many cases, the price of land has risen as much as 1,000% in the last decade. A growing population, the migration from cities to suburbia, increased prosperity and widespread speculation have all pushed up land prices and made old Henry Ford's dictum come true in a way that he never anticipated: "The soil is the source of wealth-not the banks." The worth of all the land in the U.S. is half a trillion dollars-nearly twice the assets of all commercial banks...
...many students, however, will actually write letters, and it would be unfortunate if the CRIMSON's voice were the only one heard in the undergraduate community. There still remains a function for a Council, but that function is strictly defined by the dictum to thoroughly research a problem and present an argument cogently and politely. This is the sort of thing a council can do; several decades ago this is what the Student Council did, with impressive results...