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...refusal was based on the fifth amendment to the Constitution. Today, if you say "yes, I was a Communist," you are persecuted under the Smith Act; if you say "no," they will get a perjurer to testify against you; and if you won't answer, they hold you in contempt...
...refusal was based on the fifth amendment to the Constitution. Today, if you say "yes, I was a Communist," you are persecuted under the Smith Act; if you say "no," they will get a perjurer to testify against you; and if you won't answer, they hold you in contempt...
Coventrians, who had first look at the entries, expressed their contempt in a colorful string of nicknames: "the grand piano," "the Kremlin," "the pork pie," "the egg-in-a-cup," "the beehive." Even the winning entry, a conservatively modern stone, glass, concrete and steel structure by Scottish Architect Basil Spence, was compared unenthusiastically to a cinema, a factory and a block of flats...
Familiarity Breeds Contempt...
...legend surrounding Radcliffe's ivory towers and its bespectacled inmates must yield to the pressure of figures, cold, exact figures... If Radcliffe has overwhelmed the sneers of a decade, and emerged from a chrysalis of contempt as the most alluring fata Morgana for several thousand potential bachelors. what use caution...