Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert H. Mundheim '54, visiting professor of Law this year and author of the Mundheim Report, indicated that none of the proposals suggested at the meeting were as yet sufficiently formulated to comment upon...
...hasn't got the goods to deliver. Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer fits very definitely into the latter category. In his attempt to salvage theatre from the sentimentality of his day, Goldsmith dipped enthusiastically into the grab bag of Restoration drama. Unfortunately, all his hand touched upon was an endless array of frenetic entrances and exits. Aside from a few minor characters, his players still must wander about with an air of frustrated gentility. All that excitement, but so little vigor--rather like a spastic with anemia...
...governor's road-building program, moreover, has always had only one real aim: to move traffic. Time and time again, communities have protested the losses in housing and unemployment which Volpe's hard-driving road program was imposing upon them. Since its founding two years ago, the federal Department of Transportation has been creeping toward a policy of taking a hard look at such costs of building roads before approving them. If he holds true to form Volpe will reverse this trend, making Federal road-building once again simply a matter of pouring concrete along lines dictated by traffic flows...
Zinn's book, in this sense, is both beautfiul and terrifying. It is beautfiul, because it looks forward to the time when men will base their society upon morality, and justice will at last be united with the law. But it is terrifying as well, because the conditions of the 1960's are too angry, too hostile, too violent to let this work. Zinn is overreaching himself when he asks that the Court stand on his side when he breaks a law, no matter how immoral he may consider that law to be. As long as the law stands...
...eyes of hockey fans are now upon Leverett. Dave Opsahl casually netted six goals in Leverett's season opener against Kirkland as the Bunnies won, 15-0. Captain Henry Doerr also played well, tallying three times. As an encore a week later, Leverett topped Dudley when Dudley was disqualified for not wearing ice skates...