Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientific world civilization is more than abstract thought. It consists of a body of knowledge, its systematization, the multiplication of tools and implements for using the knowledge, and an implicit belief that human life can and ought to be changed. This last aspect requires that human history be seen as a linear, irrversible movement, and is therefore opposed to the deeply-rooted belief of eastern religions in a cyclical theory of change in human experience. Further, can science, which has grown up in the Christian notion of love for the whole material world as God's Creation, co-exist with...
...Clubbies". The stock image of the Clubbie casts him as a preppie snob, with well-cut clothes and well-combed hair, who retreats into his club sanctum in order to be among his own kind and cut himself off from his rather unattractive, socially awkward classmates. He is seen as a collegiate version of the senile, plush-leather-armschair-sitters of London's clubs--rather disdainful of the academic life, of the University, and of participation in any extracurricular activity except the Lampoon or athletics...
...funniest spectacles to be seen hereabouts in a long time is taking place on the stage of the Wilbur these nights. Count Ory and a dozen knights, all disguised as nuns, gain entrance to a palace in which a countess and her female friends have retreated with Lysistratan resolves while their husbands are off on the Crusades. The men's lecherous aims are temporarily side-tracked when one of them discovers a well-stocked wine cellar; a drunken orgy ensues until the ladies suddenly come on the scene...
...past, I have always come away from a Goldovsky production with the impression of having seen a show of amazing vitality and freshness--qualities that the more venerable institutions often lack. This show is no exception...
Throughout the entire first half, the Crimson attack was a delight to watch. The forwards passed and shot excellently as they kept up a withering attack on the Bruin goal. Crimson coach Bruce Munro lauded the team after the game, saying, "I haven't seen such precision bombing since I left the Air Force...