Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Played by amateur actors like Delos Yellow Eagle and Frankie Red Elk, The Exiles slices a depressing day out of a set of static and pointless lives, showing a lost people who imitate the language of Negroes as if in aspiration to belong to a higher-echelon minority. They lie around in their grimy pads listening to westerns on TV with lines like "reckon that'll teach them moonfaced Indians to have more respect for a white man." Or they drive to a rubbly hilltop and hold war dances with jugs of wine, the galactic lights of the city...
Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones; Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss, The pieces kiss again, no end to this ... Equilibrists lie here; stranger, tread light; Close, but untouching in each other's sight; Mouldered the lips and ashy the tall skull. Let them lie perilous and beautiful. Full of tart paradox and sweet passion, Ransom is himself a poetic equilibrist of rare skill. Girded against sentiment with irony, against dullness with wit and cerebral learning, he yet manages to convey the flavor of an innocent past when...
Educated to Lie. Havemann's heresy was obviously inspired by the liberalized intellectual climate that has spread through Eastern Europe, with the notable exception of Stalinist East Germany. Defying Ulbricht's regime, Havemann spoke out in a recent lecture series to students at East Berlin's Humboldt University on the explosive subject of freedom and morality. Under Stalinism, he declared, man is "educated to hypocrisy and dishonesty" by a police state that kills thought. "All this we must change completely." When dogma blocks the free exchange of ideas, he said, it "creates the conditions for a disastrous...
...PROMISSORY FRAUD: A swindle in which the culprit made or implied a false promise of future action, but cannot be convicted of any crime under existing law, because he did not lie about present facts...
Wrestling tournaments are exciting, and they can be fun, for both spectators and wrestlers. But they aren't much fun if no one on a team is in contention after the first round or two. Perhaps the answer, for the downtrodden Ivies, would lie in a league tournament of their...