Word: thunderbolts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guatemala, where philandering approaches the status of a national sport, the present chief of state, President Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, 65, is a defiant monogamist of 38 years' standing. Last week, after long tolerating the irailties of his colleagues, the marital maverick finally shot off a thunderbolt to the Ministry of Interior. "Public rumors supported by evidence," he wrote, "show that many functionaries and government officials not only have mistresses but are seen in public with them, displaying disrespect toward their homes.'' The snapper to President Ydígoras' attempt to achieve fidelity by fiat...
...exits are either barricaded or booby-trapped. A rumor of gas causes mass hysteria. A simple cough is like a thunderbolt that brings on a rain of German grenades. A classical pianist plays a melancholy tune on his sweet-potato pipe and quotes Dante's Inferno as his mind ebbs away "in the lake's foul bottom, plunged in dung"-a grim elegy that unites all their fates. A sentient lover (Tadeusz Janczar) pretends "we're walking in a dark and fragrant wood," but his blonde, tough-minded mistress (Teresa Izewska) shatters the illusion tersely...
That an amateur orchestra should tackle Mahler would seem to swell ambition into hybris evoke awe but wreak disaster. And for it to invite so great an artist as Maureen Forrester would seem to make conceivable only nemesis or utter triumph. But the gods were sleepy Friday night; the thunderbolt never came. Neither catastrophe nor undreamed success came to the HRO: feeling flickered in the music now and again, sometimes brilliantly, but never consistently...
...course, proud of such credentials. But 'M.I.T.'s faculty members are the first to protest that headline-making achievement is only a by-blow of M.I.T.'s real purpose: that of producing scientists and technologists able to cope with and lead an epoch of thunderbolt change. Can they be mass-trained? At M.I.T., with its 6,300 students (including 154 coeds rather chillily referred to as "the women students"), the answer is yes. But how? M.I.T.'s answer lies in its willingness to change itself...
Because the newspaper is supposedly published by the Executive Committee, the suspension was technically justified in its adsurd extremity. The endorsement may have been ill-advised, but such a peccadillo hardly merits a full-scale thunderbolt. Student Government elections are remarkable neither for their excitement nor their significance...