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Word: statement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...howled its joy, clamored for even more death sentences. The mob was clearly closing in on General Kassem, who alone has the power of clemency. The U.S. and Britain felt horror and shock at the verdict (they had expected a prison term), but knew that any public statement by them would only deliver Jamali more surely than ever into the hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: To the Gallows! | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Continuing the longstanding opposition of the Roman Catholic Church to segregation, 210 of the U.S.'s 220 Catholic bishops met in Washington, D.C. last week, issued a tough statement on why and how segregation offends against morality and Christianity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bishops Speak | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...could play only on a college field, Curley arranged for Boston College to play Holy Cross at Harvard Stadium on Thanksgiving. With an undefeated record, Barry Wood's team had just been defeated 3-0 by Albie Booth's last period field goal for Yale when, in an exclusive statement to the CRIMSON, Curley urged Harvardmen to attend the Thanksgiving game, explaining, "This is one game Harvard can't lose...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Harvard History of James M. Curley | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...meetings are also severely criticized. At these meetings, the group "degenerates into a kind of gentleman's club, a mutual admiration society." He says that there is "little intellectual meeting ground between the various academic disciplines," and that the criticisms of the readings are therefore not very helpful. This statement is the direct antithesis of Dean Devane's comment, "I suspect that the criticism from the fellow student is even more worthwhile than that from his elders...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: The Scholars of the House Program at Yale: Praise From the Faculty, Student Criticism | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Like most every corridor we pursue into Genet's devious, intriguing mind, this one brings us up against a solid stone question mark. Every statement, perhaps, that can be made about Deathwatch can be convincingly refuted by following up a different train of hints. But then, J.-P. Sartre calls Genet a black magician, and it is no wonder we are unsure how his spells should be pronounced, or what spirits they are intended to call up. All that is certain is that the spell is most strangely and subtly effective

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Genet's Deathwatch in New York | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

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