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Shortest-lived among the clubs in Harvard history was a "Society to Discourage the Perpetration of Crimes," formed in 1793. One of the few records pertaining to the virtuous club was a resolution passed by the Corporation on December...
Voted that this Corporation highly approves of so virtuous and laudable a measure: and that ... such conduct merits & will obtain the approbation and applause of every well wisher to the reputation of the University...
Amid outcries about freedom, characters die as if it were the last act of Hamlet; amid tirades against power, slave girls uncover and Caligula runs wild. If there is a unifying note in all this it is that the characters, whether male or female, slave or free, vile or virtuous, slain or spared, are orators one and all. So much oratory has its touches of eloquence, so much theatricalism its flashes of theater. But the play as a whole is lumberingly lurid, and Alvin Epstein's Claudius offers some adroit stammering that is more effective than anyone else...
...What's wrong with American films and TV," he adds, "is that sponsors pander to the public's demand for a moral." Americans "get off easy" by identifying with virtuous characters...
...Humorless Cry-Baby." For a few other newspapers that carped at the Hays-Coffin findings, the Ottawa Journal had only mock-serious despair. "The trouble, apparently, is that some stroke of cruel misfortune has placed Canadians, wise, virtuous, altruistic, full of grace, all but perfect in their thoughts, acts and general conduct, alongside a people who are imperfect, who lack our wisdom, idealism, grace and near-perfect behavior, leaving us in a mess. Are we not in danger of losing all sense of proportion-becoming in the process a sort of humorless cry-baby of the Western world...