Word: fallen
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Both too lurid and too grandiose, The Big Knife writes of lost idealists, in whom there was always something of the ham or the hack, as though they were fallen archangels. It stirs little real sympathy for them. Designed as scathing tragedy, it emerges as botched melodrama which often suggests an ugly farce...
Nevertheless, Kalaupapa, operated for the last 84 years as a self-supporting isolation colony, has fallen behind the times. Hawaii's bumbling Governor Ingram M. Stainback, onetime lawyer from Tennessee, now calls it "a blot upon Hawaii's good name." Last week he asked the Territorial Legislature to erase the blot by closing out the colony at Kalaupapa. There are now only 248 patients there; at the peak, in 1890, there were 1,100. Compulsory segregation of leprosy patients at Kalaupapa is, said Governor Stainback, "an expensive and useless cruelty ... a survival of a dark age of ignorance...
Yale, as usual, played primarily a defensive game even after it had fallen three goals behind, checking back rapidly and confining its offense mostly to sporadic rushes on the Harvard cage...
...Portrait of Jennie and the British-made The Fallen Idol...
...their inaction, it seems quite clear THAT HARVARD UNIVERSITY IS CONDONING JUVENILE DELINQUENCY. The editors of the Harvard CRIMSON therefore recommend the prosecucution of those officials responsible for permitting this demonstration to occur. HARVARD UNIVERSITY HAS FALLEN INTO THE HANDS OF A BAND OF FAGINS. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE...