Word: classically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then came "The Talk." There was McLaughlin, one wintry January afternoon, face fiery red, eyes glistening as he modulated between soft pleads and harsh commands, begging while cajoling his troops in classic locker room speech...
...plan is like the classic response of the bureaucrat, or parent whose children are getting older and more independent--it's much easier to try to control, rather than to trust and have faith in the outcome. The faculty's solution to the muddled state of undergraduate education mirrors the kind of responses we are used to seeing in the rest of society. When the crime rate goes up, people cry for law and order and a larger police force--they don't try to eliminate the problems which cause the crime. Too much of our society tries to outmuscle...
There are non-Marxian socialists, but all owe some debt to Karl Marx, who framed the classic socialist indictment of capitalism, accusing it of turning labor into a commodity and thus exploiting and dehumanizing workers while it enriches bourgeois owners. Most important, perhaps, was Marx's claim that he had discovered certain "scientific" laws of history. By creating an increasingly numerous and impoverished working class, goes his familiar argument, capitalism produced the very forces that one day would destroy it in an Apocalypse of violent revolution. This confident prediction, which for more than a century inspired nearly all socialists with...
...should damn a college drama society for producing an enormously difficult play. Although Anthony Shaffer's thriller Sleuth may not challenge a company the way a play by Ibsen or O'Neill does, in some ways the risks are even greater. In a naturalist classic, after all, the director and cast can strive for emotional honesty to compensate for a lack of maturity or finely-honed technique; Sleuth, however, is an exercise in style, and it demands a display of brazen theatrical exhibitionism, a roaring hamminess firmly entrenched in technical precision. The actors must savor Shaffer's dialogue, sputter...
Snow is the bane of Northeastern golfers but a number of technological breakthroughs have made even this seeming pratfall little more than a minor inconvenience. For example, this winter the Chili Open Golf Classic was played near Akron, Ohio...