Word: mock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tonight at 8 p.m. a rally with brief pointed talks by four prominent local Democrats will open the mock convention. Professors Samuel H. Beer and Seymour E. Harris '20, Mrs. Joseph Cass, Massachusetts State Committeewoman, and a local AFL leader will speak...
...Early in the school's history, interested outsiders suggested that the new, alumni-less group "adopt" alumni. The University quickly did so, realizing that many of its potential benefactors were first or second generation citizens who had not attended college and thus would respond to an offer of a mock diploma...
...exposing the fight racket. Bogie gleefully battles out the old question of free will versus determinism in this thriller with metaphysical aspirations. The death of a boxer is seen as a boxer would see it. Any Bogie film is good; this one isn't. It has Rod Steiger, whose mock-murderous mood makes it a smash, and Jan Sterling, who could have been the sexually-repressed daughter of a prurient minister. As we said to our companion as we came out of the U.T., The Harder They Fall is a sweaty, brutal, and challenging social document...
That he was prepared was demonstrated next day at a 31-minute press conference that centered on bombs, missiles and peripatetic Russians, but found time for a political question more personal than the one on Dick Nixon. When I.N.S. Columnist Ruth Montgomery asked with mock-solemn mien what he thought about Democratic election-year strategy to make him the prime campaign target, Ike shrugged and laughed. "Well, I think it is perfectly correct," he said. "I am the head of the Administration, and I have been shot at before...
...danger ahead. On the one hand is anarchy. Humanity can't survive looking at television screens. On the other there is technocracy, in which man becomes a tiny pin in a gigantic mechanism. How can man be preserved? The answer seems so fragile, so hypothetical, that people understandably mock it. It is simply that we need an act of faith in man-faith in his profound worth and in the divine spark he contains." For faith is the bridge to the future. "This is Rome at the time of the barbarians. It is falling apart. But that doesn...