Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...useful myth, not because it makes men moral, but because it civilizes them. He enjoyed mocking American. English and German Protestants for their rigid dismissal of superstition and their concern with questions of conduct. The doctrine of eternal damnation (he wrote) did not mean that man must behave himself lest he suffer torment in the afterlife, but was a poetically enlightening image which refined men's sensibility and hardened their stoicism before the intolerable truth that all human acts, all evils and all pain, are irremediable. What is done is done, and man must take the consequences with open...
Both colleges sanction freshman disturbances in one way or another. Worried lest the whole sophomore class might not participate in hazing of Beanie-wearing freshmen, the Bruin '55 class committee called a meeting last Thursday "to discuss the hazing of freshmen by the entire sophomore class...
...purpose of this controlled scrimmage. Coach Lloyd Jordan and his staff were watching for certain things as they shuttled players in and out. How many of the newcomers, mostly sophomores, passed the test of varsity competition in Harvard Stadium under game conditions is not known. At lest, Coach Jordan wasn't saying...
...know," said Truman, "if the Republicans don't wake up and reform it wouldn't surprise me if they never did win another national election." Some people, he went on, go around saying that the voters ought to support the Republicans this year lest the two-party system disappear. "This is an appeal to charity . . ." declared Harry Truman. "No party deserves to be kept alive just out of kindheartedness or charity...
...Ministers, which will be held in London in November. Canada, the only dollar nation in the Commonwealth bloc, seems more skeptical than hopeful. Preparing for the conference last week, Ottawa took the attitude of a rich cousin invited to a family reunion-sorry for the less fortunate relatives, wary lest they make an unwelcome touch...