Word: meaningfulness
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The most prominent victims of Teng's finesses have been the ultraradical leaders known as the Gang of Four, headed by Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing. But now there are signs that Teng's purge is being extended to next echelon radicals. For the past...
What is the meaning of representation? An elected representative is expected to convey to the authorities the views of his constituents; yet Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) representative Victor I. Filippini '80, when presenting the Core petition to the Faculty, read "only the sections he agreed with." He admitted that...
But is scientific truth too high a price to pay for sowing the agony of doubt in the minds of common folk? The Little Monk (Rudy Caringi) describes the pain his poor parents would suffer if the earth were no longer the center of the universe and man the paragon...
Perhaps the finest achievement is the depiction of the Germans. In most movies or TV shows that describe the Third Reich, the Nazis are heel-clicking automatons who run around yelling "Heil Hitler!" The effect of such theatrics is to rob genocide of its meaning; audiences can dismiss the Final...
But whatever the pleasures of Milan in the late '30s, the countervailing fact was that Steinberg, a Jew?and a foreign Jew at that?was living under a Fascist regime which grew more anti-Semitic by the week. He graduated as a Dottore in Architettura in 1940; and on his...