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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young for novelties." But in fact, he said, no real grounds for discontent exist. "The perfection of social rights in our country is a reality. The lead Spain has over other people in this is extraordinary." And economically, "the real fact is that in these 20 years Spain has known an economic development without precedent in its history...
About 100,000 wild Tibetan nomads, known as the Goloks, who fight with swords and old muzzle-loader muskets, have declared war on the Chinese Reds in Tibet...
Clouds was directed against the educational practices of the Sophists in general, and of Socrates in particular. The fact that Socrates was not a valid representative of the Sophists made no difference; a well-known whipping dog was needed, and fairness be damned. Ironically, Aristophanes could vent his aristocratic and antisocratic bias only in a highly democratic community that permitted slander, libel, blasphemy, and indecency. Socrates (played with gusto and the proper amount of eccentricity by Upton Brady) appears as the pettifogging proprietor of a "think-shop," a sort of Rube Goldberg of the intellect with his head...
Miss Canty was arraigned on 30 counts of larcency in 1951, reportedly for using stolen charge account plates. "She has been known to various people as being undependable for about ten years, but no one incident was serious enough to get her out of circulation," the Health Service official reported. Police said she is now under psychiatric observation...
...myth runs equally well in the opposite direction. Well known at Radcliffe is the song about the poor girl who wrote a thesis for some boy each year for three years, only to be "dropped" as soon as her typewriter-weary fingers turned over the black-covered masterpieces. A familiar scene around the Quad, come examination period, is a harried-looking Harvard student coming to get reading and/or lecture notes from a willing Cliffe amanuensis...