Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once absurd and fascinating. "Everything that a man does turns against him," he explains. "You will be punished for everything. That is the tragedy of human destiny." Mocked by life, mankind becomes "a race of convulsionaries at the center of a cosmic farce." Since philosophical systems inevitably fail, Cioran is led to denounce reason as "the rust of our vitality" and the study of history as "the terror of chronology," both of which lead men to separate consciousness from reality. To Cioran, all truth is ultimately hoax, all certainties no more than "functioning lies...
...London stage mirrors the transatlantic crisis in theater. Appraising current English offerings, TIME'S drama critic T. E. Kalem finds that established playwrights are mute or faltering, while younger talents fail to fulfill their promise. There is a constant tremor of faddish experiments, but no significant explosion of creative energy. The measure of how much is expected of the stage is that everyone complains...
...strength to a Nixon ticket, reached the some conclusions that Volpe has been trumpeting for some months now. Volpe's earlier attempts to convince Nixon of his own vote-getting value have been futile and it expected that the Collins study, despite its scientific appearance and statistical documentations, will fail also to impress Nixon and his king-makers...
This is the first time the HPC has ventured into the publishing business. During the past year, it was largely responsible for applying the necessary pressure to get Pass-Fail and Independent Study changes through the voting Faculty...
...Guide will include chapters on freshman advising, the Bureau of Study Counsel, Pass-Fail, Independent Study, tutorials, study abroad, grants for term-time and summer employment, Cambridge during the summer, and a guide to Harvard guides...