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...Level XI (605 B.C.), Makor was a broken-down little village where the only excitement was an occasional romp with the sacred prostitutes of Astarte -until the Babylonians came. Corner, a self-righteous scold who must have seen proof sheets from the Book of Jeremiah, prophesied the fall of the city, the Babylonian captivity, and destruction of the conquerors...
Kerr later put out an explanatory statement that seemed to scold the regents ("Offenders must be disciplined, but due process must have its due place"), the faculty ("Faculty committees should not seek to avoid their responsibility"), and students ("Academic institutions have traditionally set standards of moral and ethical behavior conducive to their principles"). But he implied that his resignation was not irrevocable, saying that it was "not my inclination...
Oxbridge Words. The "don" in don rag comes from the Oxbridge term for tutor, and the "rag" is an Anglicism, meaning to scold. Scolding is not its only function. The catalogue calls the don-rag "diagnosis and prescription," and students in difficulty are given extra don-rag periods, throughout the term. Dean John S. Kieffer believes that those having the hardest time should receive the tenderest treatment. The sophomore who was charged with flippancy and debunking was considered a bright but complacent boy who could take the harsh words...
Through Waltzing Dan's room troop: his termagant sister (Pert Kelton), a scold who would rather be righteous than right; a mournful Jewish crony, much dismayed that a recently deceased and cremated friend might be occupying the ashtray at his elbow; a refreshingly downbeat priest to whom God is all Greek and man is vile, and a medical fraud who takes Polaroid pictures of his patients at each visit to trace their rate of decay. These flavorful characters are impaled on a toothpick plot like canapes. The story that should make the play go makes it stop -whether Waltzing...
...always, Khrushchev on tour turned out to be part frolicking peasant, part common scold. In his lighter moments, he was engagingly frank. With half a glass of beer inside him, he was asked at an after-dinner party whether the Russians had ever solved their succession problem. Khrushchev's response was a jocular account of the 1957 at tempt by Bulganin, Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich to depose him. "Bulganin," said Khrushchev, "was and is a very good bookkeeper. He was even being a bookkeeper during the anti-party revolt. He thought that four was bigger than seven. He knows...