Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meeting that night, they formally accused her of making "false, defamatory, impertinent, and scandalous charges," and ordered her permanently expelled. Whether or not Autherine fully understood the legal complaint drawn and filed by her lawyers, the reprisal of the trustees fell on her alone. She was the only target within range of the board...
Paul L. Scher '57 will recommend to the Student Council tonight that the Freshman Smoker be abolished. The Council will act on his proposal at its meeting, but it is understood that Scher's rather severe bill will be defeated...
...very reliable Council source predicted yesterday that Scher's proposal "was certain to be defeated." It is further understood that the Freshman Union Committee will consider "the future of the Smoker" at its meeting tomorrow...
...president of the Lampoon, McCord was not at a loss for words. He replied: "Dear Mr. Griscom/ You are good/ Your Pax Vobiscum/ Is understood/ Your children three/ Will soon be scholars/ Till then your free/ No duns for dollars/ For even we'll/ Remember that/ It isn't leal/ To pass the hat/ Until your boy/ Has got his growth/ What then: O joy/ We'll get you both...
...poisoner and promoter of Black Masses. She symbolized the strange, diabolic resistance movement that flourished beneath the surface of official society, just as Madame de Sévigné symbolized the outer serenity and almost Japanese exactitude of social forms. There is no evidence that her 17th century mind understood that underground passion for evil any more than the passion for sainthood. She could only sigh with stoic disenchantment: "What hope can there be. for one who is neither worthy of heaven nor of hell?" This line sums up perfectly a kind of moral neutralism that did not end with...