Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Dylan Thomas, privately the spirit of extravagance, there might have been expected at least one big, rich, interesting failure; the Poets' Theatre has gratified this expectation by presenting the world premiere of The Doctor and the Devils. In it Thomas takes on the problem of the existence in a comfortable and cultured city of the vilest depths of misery and degradation, and the question of whether a good end can justify any means. The first of these great issues is largely muffled in Dickensian-Hogarthian picturesqueness for the slums, and clumsy, over-literary, rhetorical prose for the cultured quarters...
...uneasy stirrings of Afro-Asian self-determination cast a harsh glare on the turgid cataract of independence and democracy, per se, as they sink their roots ever deeper into the rich brown soil of the ancient Fertile Crescent, that strife-ridden slice of the mordacious Middle East which includes the Bedouins of Syria, the Riffs of Jordan, the fiercely patriotic people of brave little Israel, the Nomads of the Saudi-Arabian wastelands, the oil-rich sheiks of Kuwait and the curvaceous cuties of the Cairo Casbah, not to mention the nubile Nubians of the nether Nile, the nemesis of Nasser...
...Room rents will be down, down, down," Dean Robert Hall announced last week over WHRB, "but values will be up, up, up." Robertino, as he is known to his many friends the CRIMSON learned recently, said, "Harvard's soak-the-rich policy has finally paid off. Dividends right across the board, Yessiree...
Jack Downing, Rich Castellana, Harry Rich, and Don Kirkland gave the Crimson its only first of any kind during the meet with a victory in the freshman mile relay. The Yardlings led Holy Cross to the tape by 20 yards in the good time...
...estimates that these four changes would yield $118 million in extra tax revenue. At the same time, the group maintains that they would neither increase the burden upon the poor as much as a sales tax, nor "soak the rich...