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...major sport with two seasons is track, winter and spring, and here again Yale has been the usual thorn in the Crimson's side. Another annual athletic truism is that Harvard's track teams improve considerably in the spring. Perhaps this is because of an increase of weight events in the warm weather version of the sport. Small, quiet Coach Jaakko Mikkola, a former Olympics javelin star, is a master at tutoring young and strong but untrained men in hurling the javelin, discuss, hammer, and shot...
...predecessors should lead to despair if that plight did not require a quantity absent from his present day critical scene--hope. Rather than pray and hope for a critical renaissance, the theatre world chooses to redefine the position of the critic in their midst remembering, I fear, that old truism, "to have never hoped is to never have despaired." This indifference to emotion and life expressed in a defensive, fatalistic attitude is to be much lamented as Dr. Faustus laments the sale and riddance of his soul for likewise by debunking the critic, theatre has lost the means of viewing...
...analyses it as Germany's special and fraudulent resolution of the forces of nationalism and socialism in Europe a formula which demanded the complete sacrifice of the individual to the State. Prussian militarism was primarily responsible for the abrogation of private moral judgment. Yet in stating the universal truism that "a full understanding of the totality of historical existence was lacking in these technicians of war," Meineeke does not discuss the more important factor that in Germany these militarists were given political responsibility. Nor does he, in calling Prussian militarism most blameworthy, explain why Nazism was most popular in southwest...
...analyses it as Germany's special and fraudulent resolution of the forces of nationalism and socialism in Europe--a formula which demanded the complete sacrifice of the individual to the State. Prussian militarism was primarily responsible for the abrogation of private moral judgment. Yet in stating the universal truism that "a full understanding of the totality of historical existence was lacking in these technicians of war." Meineeke does not discuss the more important factor that in Germany these militarists were given political responsibility. Nor does he, in called Prussian militarism most blameworthy, explain why Nazism was most popular in southwest...
...pygmy menace that it is difficult to rise to Jovian levels of condemnation. In his speech last night, for instance, which was sponsored by the Free Enterprise Society, a number of remarks proved him beyond doubt to be an anti-semite. To most people it is something of a truism to say that anti-semitism is evil--so much of a truism, in fact, that when a man stands on a chair and shouts "I hate Jews," it is better to ignore him and to concentrate criticism on shrewder, more careful anti-semites. Hart did not declare that he hated...