Word: remarked
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...court had lasted four months; after he was found guilty of "contributing" to the Nazi mass murder of 6,000,000 Jews, his appeal of the verdict was considered for nine weeks by the Israeli Supreme Court, and then denied, with the remark that even death was not an adequate penalty for Eichmann. As a last recourse, Eichmann made a personal plea for clemency to Israel's President Izhak Ben-Zvi. Within 34 hours a prison commissioner told Eichmann that his plea had been rejected. He grimaced slightly, said, "Jawohl...
...collegians' urge to go on studying stems from all sorts of reasons, and staying in the academic womb is apparently the least of them. Beating the draft is no prime mover, either-although one Princeton cynic did remark last week, "I'm doing graduate work at my fiancée's school next year so I can marry her this summer and avoid the draft." But far more pervasive is the idea that the B.A. is neither sufficient as a guarantee of a good job-big-company recruiters increasingly demand M.A.s-nor as a certificate of intellectual satisfaction...
...Rake's Progress and Hans Werner Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers. The country opera gets along on box office and private contributions. Says Christie: "We would not take a state subsidy if offered it." The uniquely local flavor that Glyndebourne still retains is reflected in the remark made one evening at intermission by a neighboring peer: "I come to John for opera. He comes to me for shooting...
...ever won its way among the majority of converts by the mere force of reasoning.... It is easy, then, to see how great in England was the part played by external circumstances--one might almost say by accidental conditions--in determining the overthrow of protection. A student should further remark that after free trade became an established principle of English policy, the majority of the English people accepted it mainly on authority.... What, however, weighed with most Englishmen, above every other consideration, was the harmony of the doctrine that commerce ought to be free, with that disbelief in the benefits...
Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor, last night criticized L. Don Leet, professor of Geology, for his methods in promoting his theory of nuclear test detection. The remark came at the conclusion of a lecture by Leet, explaining his controversial hypothesis...