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They hoped to galvanize public opinion by goading Chicago's tough cops into more of the publicity-catching repression meted out last year. Despite the provocations, the police for the most part kept their temper. Nor did many allies enlist in the cause...
John Osborne's obsession, his master theme and his greatest gift to the theater are one and the same-himself. When his nerves begin humming like high-tension wires, when he takes his emotional temperature every other minute, when he steps into the spotlight and throws a nightlong temper tantrum, the dramatic results are explosively and corrosively alive. Whether it be Jimmy Porter (Look Back in Anger), or Archie Rice (The Entertainer), or Bill Maitland (Inadmissible Evidence), Osborne's personal mouthpiece always screams out his rage, scorn, self-pity and impotence so that an audience is held...
...Middle East conflict will figure in scheduled debates on two subjects this fall: the condition of Palestinian refugees, who have been U.N. wards since 1948, and Arab claims of human-rights violations in Israeli-occupied territories. Other debates certain to engage the Assembly's time and temper include the protection of civil rights for Northern Ireland's Catholic minority and restrictions on chemical and germ warfare. There is every prospect that the U.N. will formally decide to enter the pollution-control field by setting up the first worldwide governmental conference on the protection of the environment...
Consequently, it appears wiser to temper the principle of equality so as to give the larger faculties a better opportunity to reflect their extraordinary diversity. Accordingly, we are inclined to recommend that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences fill six seats in order to represent adequately the undergraduate and postgraduate programs, the three large professional faculties of Law, Medicine and Business Administration fill four each, and the five smaller faculties-Design, Divinity, Education, Public Administration and Public Health-send two members each. In addition, we propose that three Overseers, two Fellows, a representative of the Radcliffe Trustees and a representative...
...name of good hygiene and loving care." > "In most of the small group of leaders of the radical left, intellect was developed at much too early an age, and at the expense of their emotional development. Although exceedingly bright, some remained emotionally fixated at the age of the temper tantrum." > "The political content of student revolt is most of all a desperate wish that the parent should have been strong in the convictions that motivate his actions. This is why so many of our radical students embrace Maoism, why they chant 'Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh' in their...