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...also argued that there are already 18 liquor licenses in an area of 700 square feet (sic) around the Square. The opposition contended further that the law banning licenses within 500 feet of schools and churches would be violated, since the Cardullo establishment is just 452 1/2 feet from the First Church, Unitarian...
...puzzled by your description of the diploma riot at Harvard. You say the battle cry was "Latin, Si; Pusey, No !" But why should the scholarly young classicists do their screaming in Spanish? I suspect that the cry really was "Latin, Sic; Pusey...
...following paragraph, however, Krock observes "that by training, equipping and transporting the anti-Castro rebels, the United States violated Article 15, and perhaps to a degree (sic!) the Caracas Resolution requirement of prior consultation. But Castro's acts, only a few of which are enumerated above, pose the open threat of the establishment in this hemisphere..." In other words, no matter how clearly threatened Cuba may have been (and after all, they were invaded after the press spoon-fed the American public an image of Castro-the-maniac who was stirring up fears of an imminent invasion from the North...
...Advocate is sick sick (sic...
...issue opens with a drama by David Cole, En Croisade--the winner of an enterprise called "the first annual ADVOCATE-HDC playwrighting (sic) contest." Mr. Cole has evidently decided that the stage is eminently suited to flippant dialectic: his play does not have characters, but rather attitudes, few actions of the body, but many intricate actions of the soul. This sort of mental horseplay does not necessarily doom a literary effort, but in Mr. Cole's case the tone is annoyingly didactic, the intention overly profound--and the results predictably dull...