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Jeff Hass, as the Uninvited Guest, a psychiatrist, shines on the Mather House impromptu stage. Throughout the scenes in his office, his careful, even tone gives him ultimate power over his patients. Hass plays the psychiatrist as the absolute manipulator and succeeds in creating a sinster aura about his character. His is definitely the most consistent performance in the show...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Harvard Theater | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

...creation of the present republic. Those episodes have fostered a reflexive suspicion about yanqui motives that lingers to this day. Says a State Department official: "Mexicans are so sensitized by the past that it colors any overture from the U.S. They tend to see in normal conflicts much more sinster aspects than are really there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Macho Mood | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...feel it would be negligence of duty on my part if I did not point out what I consider carelessness, to say the least, on the part of those who run Harvard. I do not want to see Harvard continue to be the unwitting tool of the sinster influences that are now so powerful in this Country--influences responsible for the strange courses and action taken by many hitherto splendid institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roosevelt's Letter | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

...familiar figure to periodical readers; to devotees of "Scientific American" he is known as a top-notch organic chemist, to the faithful of the "Boston Pilot" he appears as the arch-enemy of the parochial school system, and to those who buy the "Chicago Tribune" he is a sinster Mother Hen nourishing a flock of "Red fellow-travelers" under the guise of academic freedom...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: James Bryant Conant: The Chemist as President, The President as Defender of the Free University | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...based on his theory that an "international Jewish organization" controls our foreign policy. How can the Free Enterprise Society maintain that his economic views can be separated from the general friendliness to fascism that is so obviously intertwined with them in his mind? How can its officers ignore the sinster similarity between Hart's views, both economic and political, and those which brought Hitler to power in Germany? How can they fail to realize that, by bringing him here despite their knowledge of his record, they were adding to his prestige and thus aiding him in his undercover warfare against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Answers to Free Enterprise Society | 2/7/1948 | See Source »

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