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...pretense, of being a representative. The student-leader's guiding motive shifts from the electorate to his own mind, or his own desires; the rationale is no longer representation, but power; not altruism, but egoism. And with this comes the abnegation of responsibility, a ram pant evil among Harvard undergraduates...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Student Representative: Academic Alienation | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

...Horse's Mouth, Chester Nimmo in Prisoner of Grace-Cary has added the Rev. Walter Preedy. In this hollow-chested, egotistical evangelist, the sense of God is like a torment. His specialty is faith healing. To him and to his followers in the London suburb of Pant's Road, it is blasphemy to call a doctor, for that is an admission that God is incapable of miracles. Preedy seems to have worked quite a few miracles himself, and his fame is spreading. This in spite of the known fact that he has seduced a 14-year-old girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Larger Than Life | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

James Matisoff's conception of Pozzo lies somewhere between the two, and his presence on the stage gives the production more life and smoothness. As his slave Lucky, Terry Graham is at least adequate, but he should learn how to pant more convincingly...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: Waiting for Godot | 11/29/1958 | See Source »

...Finance Minister's increasingly tough stand had the support of many Cabinet members and a large segment of Congress Party M.P.s. Even Krishnama-chari's personal political enemy, Home Minister Pandit Pant, has been privately buttonholing M.P.s to warn them that by jumping headlong into foreign affairs problems that do not concern India, the country has needlessly alienated those countries best prepared to help it, i.e., the U.S., England, West Germany. Pant's foreign-policy solution: stay with neutralism but stop meddling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: What the U.S. Thinks . . . | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...Seminar also heard a discussion of "India Since Independence" by Miss Mukul Mukherjee, of the Indian National Congress, Harish C. Kapur, of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and Narain K. Pant, of the University of Delhi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nasser Requires Tension, Israeli M.P. Tells Seminar | 7/18/1957 | See Source »

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