Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, gave the Reds free rein on the idealistic theory that checking them would be undemocratic. But after Nixon's life was endangered by Red-led mobs, the junta's two civilians, Eugenio Mendoza and Bias Lamberti, resigned in protest over the easy treatment of Communists...
...life, and are likened by many to the chorus in Greek tragedy. They represent normalcy in contrast to man. "My conclusions entirely support the theory that dogs have a saner family life than people," the author states. They do not mask their feelings and regiment their emotions. (For full treatment of this theme see Is Sex Necessary...
...Radcliffe girl, for example, will not have any significance to Capp's 60 million readers; therefore he does not use it. Whenever he uses the Harvard name in Li'l Abner--and he has done so fairly often it is always in a disrespestful way, but "the more disrespestful treatment," Capp says, the more delighted the reaction at Harvard...
Something comparably cynical in tone, and in spots even similar in treatment, went into Mark Twain's The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. But Düurrenmatt's tale of the woman who corrupted Gullen is more eerily sinister. In Madame Zachanassian, with her entourage-pet panther, youthful eighth husband, blinded perjurers. American gangsters-are the all-too-obvious symbols of a ruthless, degenerate world. Moreover, it was Claire herself who carefully reduced Gullen to poverty as a prelude to tempting it; and her revenge seems directed almost as much on the town that witnessed her shame...
...article in your issue of May 5th referred to the possibility of "soundproofing" House dining halls by means of acoustical treatment of the ceilings. The use of the word "soundproofing" in this connection is a common error which unfortunately reflects more than semantic confusion...