Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...after last night's joint concert of the Harvard Glee Club and the Yale Glee Club in Sanders Theatre. The first two-thirds of the concert, with one important exception, were pleasant enough, occasionally humorous, at times pedestrian, but not really very much for a reviewer to praise or condemn. Then, at about ten o'clock, after some tepid renditions of a couple of spirituals, the Yale Glee Club burst, not totally unexpectedly, into Harvardiana...
...play presents a good many hackneyed ideas about foreign and domestic policy, but they are ideas that MacLeish obviously feels need to be restated. He hammers his main point too many times; but perhaps it is unfair to condemn him for this since the play is aimed at the mass TV audience with its celebrated mental age of 14. At any rate, the whole thing is handled with good taste, and hopefully it will achieve its proletarian purpose...
...Governor criticized more than Meyer's attitude on the draft; he went on to condemn what he called "Meyer's rote to abolish the Defense Department," and his votes against the Mutual Security Program which, he emphasized, "gives us to impoverished places." Here, gain Stafford misrepresents Meyer's record...
...House calling for a profound re-examination of the government's Cold War efforts, the Congress and the whole country began stirring in response to his new and disturbing ideas. Some of these are now widely held, and the Congressman wryly observes that no one will now condemn his opposition to nuclear testing, although this stand was considered unsound...
...words of one critic, with "the murdered bodies of the instruments." Set in China in the 1940s during the Japanese occupation, the opera told of a wife who betrays her husband to the enemy, is tried by the village council and dismissed with the existentialist in junction: "We neither condemn nor absolve you. You alone can decide whether you were right or wrong, and your soul throughout eternity will be your judge...