Word: doe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incident probably would have ended there had not angered students seized on the fact that the month before, Tommy had struck Hobart's assistant dean of students, Ted Theismeyer, and threatened a student's life. Soon after a John Doe complaint charging him with harassment was filed. Why, the students now demanded, had the complaint never been served? In an interview broadcast last week on Walter Cronkite's CBS Evening News, Ontario County Sheriff Ray Morrow replied: because he was only doing the job he was hired to do. Morrow defended Tommy's actions as necessary...
...former priests about whom you so realistically wrote [Feb. 23], I wish to affirm your findings. The ordinary "John Doe" Catholic, educated by the structure, has had very little understanding of the problems within his ecclesiastical home. His approach to the priest has been obsequious, only because that is the way we trained him. He has looked at the priest as a celestial magician, and cannot fathom the exodus as anything but the work of the devil...
LANG'S FIRST American masterpiece begins peacefully and proceeds in catch its protagonists in parallel mechanisms external situation and internal drive. Its Joe Doe hero (Spencer Tracy) is mistakenly jailed as a kidnapper by a small-town sheriff. The local hicks get wind of his arrest and through hatred, greed, and xenophobia storm the jail to lynch...
...Porgy and Bess back in 1935. The post-Porgy years have offered little in the way of challenge. There are Gian-Carlo Menotti's works, including The Medium, The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street, Help, Help, the Globolinks. Also Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe, Robert Ward's The Crucible and Floyd's Susannah. But on the whole, American opera has been lacking as much in quality as in quantity...
...Wrong People talk about hockey and the Right People talk about English literature, but the scope of conversation at Eliot House dinner is always broad. The Wrong People encompass last night's House hockey game against Leverett, the Beanpot, and the Bruins. The Right People discuss who Professor Doe is sleeping with ("But I thought you knew-why that's the whole fun of taking John's course!"), what Professor Doe thinks of Ben Jonson, and who Ben Jonson slept with...