Word: spleens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With more Chinese making more money than ever, thanks to the country's economic reforms, Peking is trying to streamline the collection of taxes. Now ordinary Chinese have begun to vent their spleen at the taxman. The China Daily reported last week that in several provinces testy scofflaws turned on tax collectors with bricks and knives. In Shaanxi province, the paper said, a "gang of lawless ruffians" stormed a tax office, seriously injuring several employees. Peking has vowed swift punishment for those guilty of "assailing tax cadres...
...that Professor Walter Kaiser maligned, denigrated or upbraided President Derek C. Bok today in his Shakespeare survey course. I was shocked to hear this as I had always presumed Walter to be a man steeped in "policy" as Shakespeare uses that word and therefore too canny to vent his spleen or choler (anger) before young and impressionable students...
...participation in Harvard athletics has shown us that Kurzman's allegations have no credence whatsoever. In a publication with the high standards of The Harvard Crimson I would have expected a better documented and researched article. Instead, I have found that Kurzman has chosen to merely vent his spleen. In attempting to illustrate what he feels is wrong with Harvard Athletics, all he has shown us is his ignorance. Kevin M. McGinty '87 Robert L. Graff '87 Kevin G. Midwinter...
When Reagan refers to Nicaragua as "a second Cuba," he unknowingly highlights his own acceptance of one such regime. He surely has no plans to topple "the first Cuba." Nicaragua is just an easier target on which he can vent his anti-communist spleen. And, of course, if Nicaragua were half the threat to American security that Reagan makes it out to be, his failure to intervence there long ago would be grounds for impeachment...
...live around it say that sometimes it looks orange. Joanne O'Donnell has lived in the Grove since 1964. All five of the O'Donnell children spent time at the Pastures, she says, and four have had endocrine problems. One daughter had a pituitary tumor; another daughter's spleen was removed last year. Mark, her eldest son, at 27 came down with "some virulent, crazy pneumonia that nobody could figure out." Then a large tumor was found on his pancreas. In 1980 he died...