Word: reines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Eastman was sent away from the Party. Consequently hard-shell Communists will disregard one-time-Communist Eastman's Artists in Uniform as the disgruntled diatribe of a known dissenter. A pamphleteer of gusty eloquence (both his parents were Congregational ministers), Author Eastman gives his tongue and lung free rein in this fat (261 pp.) pamphlet-philippic. His accusation: For eight years (1924-32) the Stalin dictatorship exercised such a stifling censorship over Russian authors that no independent creative writer now dares raise his voice in Russia. Eastman sees Russian letters now as "a mirthless desert waste inhabited...
...given full freedom by the Yard police. Harvard's name was blackened by students in Nazi uniform, shouting for war. The University demands that radical clubs conform to all rules, but turns the other way when its embryonic Fascists violate regulations. The Austrian government which gave the Heimwehr free rein, the German government which took no step against the Hitlerites, practised an analogous "democratic" policy...
...left, and again most unexpectedly it may rebound into his own court. John Henry used similar tactics with Haiti's scheming politicians. To avoid even the appearance of militarism he wore civilian clothes. Through tall, thin, cafe-au-lait Louis Borno, John Henry kept tight rein on all Haitian legislation. Under him Haiti's internal and external debt was reduced to $14,000,000. He established eleven hospitals, 139 rural clinics to treat malaria, hookworm and yaws, built 1,000 miles of new roads, a half dozen new bridges of concrete and steel...
...means of the House Plan and the Tutorial System, to broaden the knowledge and experience of those who were to be the leaders of society; President Conant, on the other hand, seems to believe that only those who are allowed to broaden their own interests with a free rein will or should become the leaders of society. The distinction lies not in the method, but in the principle...
...Rowe and Asa E. Phillips '34, president of the council, plan to give each House free rein in arranging and carrying out the inter-House debates. Each House will be given a chance to do what it wants, and for the first few months there will no inter-House debates, but informal discussions at which it is hoped some men of national prominence will speak, are to be held. It was also announced that a silver cup will probably be given to the House which wins the debating championship...