Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Under Nazi rule in Czechoslovakia, a Chaplinesque carpenter (Josef Kroner) endures a Kafkaesque nightmare when his friendship with a harmless old button seller (Ida Kaminska) is tested by an order for the deportation of Jews...
Under his firm rule, it was from the start an autarchic colony, raising its own vegetarian food supplies, running its private bakery, print shop and greenhouses. For a time, the colony even had its own Siberia, a Lake Michigan island to which backsliders were banished to brood on their sins. Since man was evil, members could marry but were supposed to remain celibate-notwithstanding King Ben's example...
...regime and Quebec's rising cost of living, the conservative Union Nationale, headed by Daniel Johnson, 51, won 55 seats in Quebec's 108-seat Parliament, compared with 51 for the Lesage Liberals, and returned to power for the first time since Lesage ended their 16-year rule...
Despite Marvin's defeat, the Overseers will discuss an issue that he raised: the rule that graduates of Harvard, Radcliffe and the graduate schools have to wait five years before they can vote in the Overseers election. "Harvard would benefit from its recent graduates' immediately exercising the right and responsibility to vote," Marvin wrote to the CRIMSON last March...
Many overseers agree with him. But to change the rule, they will have to get a bill through the Massachusetts General Court (legislature). The General Court first passed the rule 101 years ago and still, for historical reasons, must approve any change in the Overseers election procedure...