Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later published under the awesome title of Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits. At last his views had crystallized and he was determined to speak out. While still professing to believe in the possibility of witchcraft, Mather explicitly denounced the use of spectral evidence. And while emphasizing his great respect for the court, he cast doubt on many of the other tests the trial judges had accepted as proof. In an eloquent and memorable passage, Mather said: "It is better that ten suspected witches should escape than that one innocent Person should be Condemned . . . It is better that a Guilty...
...Whereas the attending upon stage plays, interludes and theatrical entertainments tends greatly to corrupt the morals of a people and particularly with respect to the college must needs . . . be highly detrimental to their learning by taking off their minds from their studies, drawing them into such company as may be very ensnaring to them, expensive to their parents and tending to many other disorders: Therefore, Voted that if any undergraduate shall presume to be an actor in, a spectator at, or any ways concerned in any such . . . plays . . . in the town of Cambridge or elsewhere he shall for the first...
...this respect the Hasty Pudding differs much from the Society as it existed in the 1890's, and indeed from the final club in most eras. It was in the '90s that nation-wide fraternities were losing their grip on College chapters. The local groups wanted more independence; the national organization, more control. Throughout the 1890s' clubs were detaching themselves from the fraternity system. Porcellian and A.D., which had broken off from the Harvard chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, were joined by other final clubs. Another fraternity effort to refound Alpha Delta Phi terminated in the Phli and finally...
Last week they strikingly augmented the material resources of their mission. To replace the wheezing, borrowed Fiat which had become their trademark, Franciscan Toschi walked into a Bologna automobile dealer's to take delivery of two new Fiat station wagons (bought on the installment plan). Out of respect for his cloth and his impatience, the dealer hustled Father Toschi through the formalities of the sale as quickly as possible. Snapped an irritated lay customer, unwittingly confirming the success of Toschi's mission: "These damn Flying Friars are always taking off without waiting their turn...
...quarreled bitterly (two years ago he unsuccessfully tried to have her committed to a mental hospital). .His children were dead or far away. His name, once a clarion call, threatened to be drowned out by the tinny trumpets of lesser men. Yet Americans had reason to remember him with respect and gratitude. For the stage, even in the restless age of movies and TV, is still a window on a nation's culture, and Eugene O'Neill opened that window wide. Before O'Neill, the U.S. had theater; after O'Neill, it had drama...