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...failure to orient its program toward the undergraduate," is surely a masked lamentation upon the departure of the professor teaching Fine Arts 14. The prospect of the absence of a "fresh, interpretive approach to original works of art" seems to have prompted the writer to an excess of emotional slander aimed at this department. If he had said simply that he was unhappy to see this professor leave--a result of appointment to the faculty of another well-known Eastern college--then we might sympathize with his genuine regret. However, Friday's editorializing mixes fact with an engaging, but uncomplimentary...
Senator McCarthy picked last week to withdraw his $2,000,000 libel and slander suit against Connecticut's former Democratic Senator William Benton, who in 1952, after charging that McCarthy had engaged in deceit and was not fit to serve in the Senate, waived his senatorial immunity to Joe's libel suit...
...This has been a fateful week in the history of American Government," said Stevenson. "We are witnessing the bitter harvest from the seeds of slander, defamation and disunion planted in the soil of our democracy . . . Where we looked forward to a nation united, we have a people divided. Where we expected candor, we have misrepresentation. Where we expected firm leadership, we have timidity...
...said that "the Fair Dealers" did not intend U.S. troops to win a victory in Korea. "Then," said Jenner in a prepared speech, "[they] stooped to the ultimate depths-they gave away the victory our men had won with their blood." This the New York Times aptly characterized as "slander straight from the gutter...
...Scandal. Montagna promptly instituted slander proceedings against Editor Muto, who also awaits trial under a 1931 Fascist law for "having published false and adulterated news." The press of all parties, and in particular the Communist L'Unità, made the most of the scandal. It had everything: decadent aristocracy, orgies, playgirls, dope, and even a mystery-the still unsolved story of what happened to poor Wilma Montesi...