Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this afternoon in the City Council chambers, the Council's committee on ordinances will hold a public hearing on proposals for legislation to prohibit pinball machines. Instigator of the drive is Councilor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, who sees the machines as "a source of vice and evil in the community...
Unfortunately, other transitions are not so effective. The characters of Pyotr Petrovitch Luhzin and Arkady Ivanovitch Svidrigailov, who ranks with Smerdyakov of The Brother's Karamazov as Dostoevsky's most frightening embodiments of evil, are merged into one person, Antoine Monestier, played by Bernard Blier. Blier handles the job fairly well, but fails to capture Svidrigailov's essense, largely because of the necessary omission of the dream sequences which are so important in the novel...
...outside Red China knew pretty well what was happening across his secluded border, but Nehru was not saying. His consulate in Lhasa has the only radio link with the free world. But, for reasons of state, as well as personal inclination, Nehru was following a policy of see-no-evil, speak-no-evil regarding Red China. There were reports that he had sent additional troop re-enforcements to the Tibet border; he was known not to wish to be subjected to an influx of Tibetan refugees...
...Russians do it, the evil bird-sorcerer is killed by the Prince, and the lovers walk happily into a rose-colored sky; the fight in which the Prince tears off one of his enemy's wings is a bit of Socialist realism totally out of place in the classical ballet, but it makes for some immensely exciting dance. The effect of these and other changes was to make the Russian Swan Lake a looser, more romantic interpretation than Western observers are accustomed to seeing. On the other hand, the Bolshoi Swan Lake provided the soloists with more elbowroom...
...fundamental question, therefore, is whether compulsory "liberal" education should be part of the Harvard curriculum. Concentration has long been a part of the College, not as a necessary evil, but a positive good; to make General Education the first step in the creation of a liberal arts college, or even a compromise with that end would be a radical and undesirable change. Rather, General Education should be what it was designed to be: a liberalized distribution program which recognizes that its participants will never study the areas of human knowledge in toto, and tries to impart a general understanding...