Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate, the University has explicitly recognized the right to debate the touchy race issue. The Board justified its expulsion of Leonard Wilson by claiming that his conduct and charges "represent far more than the mere exercise of his right freely to debate the question of segregation...
...very stealing, bed-wetting and bad temper. But what can we say about the parents of these children, some of whom also consent to receive 'treatment' for themselves? In what sense can they be said to be mentally sick? Must we accept as proof of their illness mere failure to cope with such unmanageable offspring...
...movie ratings published by the Legion of Decency (AI unobjectionable for general patronage; A-II, for adults only; B, objectionable in part; C, condemned) have not, Dulles points out, the force of ecclesiastical law, as does the Index of Forbidden Books. The legion's recommendations are designed merely to help Catholics form their own consciences about what movies to see. But movie-going is "no exception to the general principle that before we perform an act we must assure ourselves that we are not committing sin ... The mere fact that I could probably attend a given picture without falling...
...witty, elegantly savage The Chalk Garden. Even more finely tempered was Tiger at the Gates, Jean Giraudoux's humanely ironic lament for the Trojan and all subsequent wars. Audiences might argue whether Samuel Beckett's puzzling, plotless Waiting for Godot was profound art or a mere philosophic quiz show; less arguable was the neatness of its writing, the desolation of its mood. In Lillian Hellman's sharp adaptation, Jean Anouilh's The Lark proved a lively stage piece; under Tyrone Guthrie's vivid direction, Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, if still no play...
While every country has its body of the true-to-life-and-how-other-people-do-it kind of romance literature, Italian love magazines called "fumetti," come adorned with countless real life pictures. These picture books show romantic adventure played out in photographic flesh as well as mere words. Written and photographed in the middle of the week, they hit the newsstands on Friday. By Saturday all Italy is ready for the next installment...