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Under the report's recommendations, interdepartmental committees would scrutinize the material now offered in the required courses, hack out a lot of it, organize what's left into a logical sequence, and ask a large number of professors to lecture individually on a little bit. Departments would use time and manpower saved to offer a variety of electives...
...young companion, whose hack-work with a soup spoon marked him as so: "Does it matter if you plant them up-side down...
This year, Reagan has subtly projected himself as the underdog; he ingenuously calls himself a "citizen politician," which somhow implies that Brown is merely a used-up, corner-cutting political hack...
...were made even worse by the last-minute cancellation of Jean Renoir's 1932 film "La Chienne," long considered one of the director's finest films. With the Renoir gone, the only "revivals" at the Festival were "A Woman Of Affairs," a mediocre Garbo film directed by a Metro hack, Clarence Brown, and "The Cheat," an old DeMille silent which the Festival apparently screened at sound speed (30 per cent faster...
...pretty clear that Buchner was a social critic who didn't like what society was doing to mankind. Woyzeck himself is the guinea pig used by the characters Buchner hated: most specifically, the army represented by a vicous and stupid Captain, and misguided science, represented by a hack doctor. Because of economic pressure, Woyzeck must allow himself to be exploited in order to live. His sanity rests on his faith in Marie, the mother of his illegitimate child. When she betrays him, Woyzeck goes slowly insane, kills her, and is immediately condemned by society for the crime...