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Clouds was directed against the educational practices of the Sophists in general, and of Socrates in particular. The fact that Socrates was not a valid representative of the Sophists made no difference; a well-known whipping dog was needed, and fairness be damned. Ironically, Aristophanes could vent his aristocratic and antisocratic bias only in a highly democratic community that permitted slander, libel, blasphemy, and indecency. Socrates (played with gusto and the proper amount of eccentricity by Upton Brady) appears as the pettifogging proprietor of a "think-shop," a sort of Rube Goldberg of the intellect with his head...
...time of year to vent our petty grievances. Typing is not allowed on mid-year and final examinations. Too many courses give examinations. There are no STOP signs at the corner of Plympton and Bow Streets. The tennis courts are in deplorable condition. The food, even in Adams and Dunster Houses, is wretched. Only one appointment has been made in the field of Geography. There are no permanent appointments in History and Lit. The water coming from both the hot and cold taps in Moors Hall is hot. Elsie's is too crowded. Animals still roam the streets of Cambridge...
...George VI, a man who had the feel of the quarterdeck, would not let the crowd vent its bitterness on the exiled David. They had parted as brothers: "D & I said goodbye, kissed, parted as freemasons & he bowed to me as his King," his diary noted, and he was not going to see him deprived of all honor in his former kingdom. Sir John Reith of the BBC wanted to introduce David in his farewell speech as "Mr. Edward Windsor." On King George's insistence, he became instead His Royal Highness Prince Edward...
...seconds tightened as hundreds of eyes were fixed on the clock. Seven-fifteen (a.m.) . . . T minus 60 seconds ... 55 ... 50 ... 45 ... Said Walsh: "Helium disconnect has dropped; lox vent has closed." Then T minus one. Snapped Walsh: "Mark!" From the blockhouse came the word: "Ignition...
...boygan-"the greatest little town in the world"-may well be the most hate-ridden community in the U.S. Passing on the street, men who used to be coworkers, neighbors and friends now glare at each other in deep-frozen enmity. At night, normally law-abiding citizens vent their gnawing hatred against their enemies in acts of vandalism: slashing automobile tires, scattering nails in driveways, hurling glass jars filled with paint through house windows. Sheboygan's hate reaches even to the children: an everyday sight is a tight-lipped child followed by other children shrilly jeering, ''Your...