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...Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, sentenced Joan of Arc, who in wartime had given her best to her nation, to be burnt as a witch; 500 years later we find a new group of witch hunters turning upon J. Robert Oppenheimer, who had given his best to his nation in wartime...
...wrong about Hollis Hall. With the pious hope that it was adding to undergraduate sobriety by housing all the students within the College gates, the Corporation opened Hollis in 1763, thus making it the fourth oldest building in the Yard. Three days later, Hollis' neighbor, Harvard Hall, burnt down in a spectacular blaze, and the Hall's restraining career was off to an auspiciously bad start. Since then, Hollis has provided a colorful mixture of deviltry and distinction in College history...
...commit suicide." "Now, now," soothed the court president. "You're not going to die. Please, just try to talk about the jurisdiction of this court." His lawyer also tried to get him to talk on the issue. Mossadegh screamed: "You're the son of a burnt father...
...merely stretching a chum out on a medieval rack. On nature walks, she likes to collect poisonous mushrooms ("Chuck those out-they're harmless"), would hardly ever go boating without making at least one lowerclassman walk the plank. Faced with a faculty frown ("Hand up the girl who burnt down the East Wing last night"), she can look angelic; but occasionally she must pay for her crimes by writing lines ("I must not smoke cigars during prayers. I must not smoke cigars during...
...seemed as much concerned with fun as functionalism. Some of the ideas were clearly impractical, e.g., a dining-room floor made of tooled blue leather, but most were bound to set housewives thinking. The colors seemed to come from a painter's palette-sparkling topaz yellow, lime green, burnt orange, cocoa brown, wine red. Decorators drew their materials from all over the world, combined Philippine rattan with American brass, mixed 19th century antiques with 20th century Egyptian coral sculpture, and thought nothing of flanking a modern sofa with a pair of smiling, five-foot Venetian blackamoors, carved...