Word: unpleasanter
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Harrison & Higgins, Inc. In Higgins, Rex Harrison plays a character close to his own-which may actually be more difficult than hiding behind King Lear's beard or Pistol's putty nose. Harrison and Higgins are both aggressively British and crisply upper crust. Both are absorbed in their...
William Swetland and Michael Higgins, who triumphed so magnificently in "Desire Under the Elms" last summer, were superb in the roles of Lincoln and Ninian Edwards, respectively. Both have fine, resonant voices that they always control with care. Jerome Kilty '49 made the most of the unpleasant task of delivering...
With that hero gone, a few intellectuals like Historian Russell Kirk have tried to rehabilitate the conservative mind. Others have set to work redefining liberalism. Critic Lionel Trilling attacked the liberal idea that the only true reality is "material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant." It was this idea...
In a cell in the Nicosia Central Prison's Block 8, a haggard young (23) tax clerk named Michael Karaolis told his blackshawled mother: "They're going to hang me." From the next cell Andreas Demetriou, also 23, and awaiting a similar fate, shouted the news to prisoners...
One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them, and they try to put him out of their minds. The easiest way to do so is to insist that he...