Word: serio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mock trial in the Lowell House Common Room early in the fall of 1934 convicted Adolf Hitler on only two criminal counts out of four; yet even in its serio-comic recognition of Nazi Germany, the Harvard community was beginning to shake the sleep from its eyes. Local politics, however, lost no ground to international. Boston's Mayor Curley got a no-confidence vote from numerous Faculty professors, and hostility to President Roosevelt was confirmed by a straw vote of Faculty and undergraduates. Again Harvard conservatives stood out against the national voice, which of course voted in New Dealers...
Billing Dreams as the third part of a trilogy indeed misleads the anxious afficionado. True, the cast and the subject imply some continuity from the above-mentioned pair; but the serio-comic has become too serious, and as a result, Dreams drags...