Word: punishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students perennially have charged that the Vietnam War-era body, which upholds the faculty's resolution protecting freedoms of speech and movement, is "illegitimate" and is invoked solely to punish political dissent...
Pretty gruesome stuff, but none of it's in the play. Most of the performance takes place after Creon discovers that it was Antigone, his son's fiance, who buried the body of Polynices. Now he must decide how to punish her. He chooses the death penalty. Bad move, as the seer Tiresias tells Creon, because decreeing the death penalty gets one prematurely sent to to Hades. Acting like a god isn't advisable in Greek drama, and in the end Creon pays for it. His son and wife both commit suicide...
After this brief interruption, the crowd returns to its normal level of participation. Rocky is by now starting to punish the seemingly invincible Drago, and various cries of "Kill him!" escape from alleged human beings. Rocky (and Stallone), I think, is no longer "da bum from Philly who don't talk too good." The audience really believes this cartoon of men named after Greek myths who have superhuman strengths and superhuman purposes. Stallone/Rocky no longer plays the aspiring Sigfried. He is no Wotan himself entering the Valhalla of mass popularity...
...statement, Bok also asked Congress not to base policy on the theory of "cost-containment." He wrote that the increasingly popular theory, which might base aid or grants on a maximum reasonable tuition cost, would unfairly punish private universities not subsidized by tax-payer
...Faculty Council will "want considerable involvement" by students in deciding changes to the CRR, said Secretary of the Faculty John R. Marquand. Students have perennially refused to participate in CRR proceedings, either as delegates or defendants, because they say it is an illegitimate body used exclusively to punish political dissent...