Word: membered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cultural Genocide. The illegal radio strongly backs the program of eloquent, poetry-spouting Gwynfor Evans, 43, president of the Plaid Cymru (Free Wales) movement. Plaid Cymru gets about 10% of the total Welsh vote, but has never yet elected a Member of Parliament. Among its grievances is the fact that the British government allows free campaigning privileges on the government-owned BBC radio and TV only to parties putting up at least 50 candidates; and there are only 36 Welsh seats in the House of Commons to contest. Hammering away at England's "colonialist" attempts at "cultural genocide...
...recording contracts are waiting along with nightclub engagements. "I'd like to alternate between the U.S. and the rest of the world," he says, but there is no doubt that recognition at home is what pleases him most. "I played part of Porgy recently," he recalls, "and a member of the cast told me, 'You don't play it; you sing it.' That," says Adler, "is what every musician is trying...
...many motives and mechanisms. Most striking motive, albeit unconscious, is "the psychological equivalent of murder . . . an endeavor to destroy the other person (for which there is no legal penalty). Also common, says Dr. Searles, is the need to get rid of "threatening craziness in oneself," achieved by telling another member of the family, "You're crazy." Most powerful of all, thinks Dr. Searles, is the utterly unconscious need to drive somebody else crazy so that an unhealthy state of mutual dependence can continue despite anxieties and frustrations...
...Harvard has spread itself out to include more schools and schools further from Cambridge, the question remains what kind of schools and what kind of people is Harvard attracting. Professor Samuel A. Stouffer, an Admissions Committee member, notes that despite the effort expended toward attracting bright people in large high schools, the small town high school has been neglected. "We don't do very well in Hush-puppy, Georgia," Stouffer comments. The large Eastern preparatory schools continue to supply sizeable delegations, but with more schools represented and fewer from any one. Even Exeter's formidable shipments have eased off some...
...thank God that the Atlantic stands between us and the ignominy of a written constitution," a member of the Cambridge University Debate Union declared yesterday afternoon in a transatlantic debate with the Harvard Debate Council...