Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Below are four very brief, rough statements of various attitudes toward "the Church," that is, toward organized religion. Check the one that most nearly approximates your views...
Each undergraduate here has probably formulated some rough notions about the influences of the College; in general, one would expect the atmosphere of the University to exert a "liberalizing" or more questioning attitude toward the legacy of opinion that the student possesses when he arrives in Cambridge. But we have tried to chart these effects on different groups among the undergraduates and to isolate the causes more accurately...
...Ring. First prosecution witness was burly, mustached Izmir Police Inspector Yilmaz Capin. Specifically asked by Judge Celal Varol about any rough stuff during the arrests, Capin denied beating anyone. At this point, a Turkish civilian, Sureya Eslek, on trial with the Americans, leaped to his feet and called Capin a liar, crying, "I was beaten!" After testifying that he "watched" one illegal exchange of currency through a window, which reporters subsequently discovered to be opaque, Policeman Capin grumpily sat down, spent the rest of the day glaring at Defendant Eslek and opening and closing his fist in a way that...
Vivaldi: Concerti (I Musici Ensemble; Epic). Five works for violins, cellos and strings by an Italian composer, the bulk of whose works remained unpublished until the late 19405. Since then, Vivaldi has been recognized as a topflight composer; he switches from gentle, birdlike flutterings to rough bearlike thumpings with masterful agility...
Boffo. Though Heimrich named no specific films, lest the notoriety make them boffo at the box office, his target was obvious. Such pictures as Cat Girl and Cry Tough are loaded with unnecessary rough stuff; scenes from The Horse Soldiers, Anatomy of a Murder and It Started with a Kiss boast overt, even sniggering sex. The wonder is that the Protestants have waited so long to draw a bead...