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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marxian theory of class war to be explicitly abjured by employers and employed, in favor of the Fascist theory of class cooperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Work Guaranteed | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...years later, however, the tremendous enthusiasm, which greeted a London production of "Agamemnon" by Oxford students again, aroused the interest of Harvard men. So it was, that in the fall of 1880, work was started on "Oedipus Rex", a unanimous decision having been made in favor of the famous tragedy of Sophocles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oedipus and Jocasta Drew Customers at $25 a Head Not So Long Ago--Sophocles Scored Smash in Cambridge of 1881 | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

...special meeting of Princetonian editors called here today to consider the gracious proposal of the Harvard CRIMSON, the telephone operator as most important member of the organization, cast three votes in favor of acceptance, there by causing passage of the following resolutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Nassan's Athletes Will Invade Soldiers Field Again on May 7--Crimson-Princetonian Ball Game Renews Relations | 4/26/1927 | See Source »

...responsibility, grant pardons to Mr. Sacco, to Mr. Vanzetti; 3) may let the law take its course. When, in his office beneath the Golden Dome of the State House at Boston, he sits down to consider his decision, what arguments are there that might lead him to decide in favor of the shoemaker and the fish-peddler? What is the case for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Pardon? | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...from the Princetonian to set itself up as dramatic arbiter whose opinion is the sine qua non of theatrical criticism, but a four-to-one preference one way or another is certainly the essence of standardization. And when an aethetic concensus is in favor of the inartistic--or let us say, the hackneyed--deus ex machina as opposed to the more logical and, therefore from a dramatic standopint, the more artistic unhappy ending--it is time to do something beyond complimenting ourselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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