Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessarily condemn the idea of an Olympian troupe in the Loeb disguised as students. But its implications should be faced. George Pierce Baker's 47 Workshop attracted special students of magnificent promise--Eugene O'Neill, for instance. But Baker was teaching playwriting, a more appropriate subject for a liberal arts college. If profesional acting teachers are brought in on a temporary basis and special students comprise the essential core of the course, why offer it to Harvard College? If such a group were to stage only one play a year, the value of the College qua audience is hardly worth...
...immediately. He pleaded insanity of the "Abrahamic" variety-like Abraham in murderous pursuit of Isaac, he was in the command of a wrathful God "Let your verdict be that it was the Deity's act not mine," he told his jurors, but they took only 65 minutes to condemn him to death. Garfield, cheerful and brave throughout his struggle for life, died 80 days after the shooting...
...Czolgosz told his disgusted lawyers that he would take no part in his defense. "I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good working people," he said. "I am not sorry for my crime." The trial lasted 81 hours. The jury needed only 34 minutes to condemn him to death...
...cannot rightly condemn all "how-to-do-it" courses. Exercises in creative writing, for example, seem much more relevant to serious academic pursuits than do exercises in photography. The problem is that instruction in the techniques of art is essentially inconsistent with the aims of education at the College, and the more of it one admits to the curriculum, the greater the likelihood that general education will gradually be replaced by training toward professionalism in the arts...
Ninty per cent of the supporting funds comes from other African countries, with the rest coming mostly from Eastern Europe and Communist China. Mondlane complained strongly that much of the Western world "can't even be made to condemn Portugal in any international conferences...