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Every ruling class wants its subjects to model themselves after Jesus, the cheerful maker of his own execution. The Indians were given reservations and Bibles. Early labor leaders competed with evangelists, and now they are trying to water down the youth revolution.
Many legal scholars doubt that the Burger Court will eliminate capital punishment; among other indicators, they cite an earlier case, in which a death sentence was upheld. Justice Black wrote a concurring opinion stating, "It is inconceivable to me that the Framers intended to end capital punishment by the [Eighth...
The level of film discussion could not help but be elevated by these new developments-even on the end page of the CRIMSON. Film critics now are not only obligated to judge the quality of execution (something very few could do anyway), but the righteousness of conception. If filmmakers do...
Elrom is the first Israeli diplomat to become a victim of urban guerrilla warfare anywhere, and the Israeli Cabinet promptly backed Turkey's tough stand against his abductors. A 23-year veteran of Israel's police force, Elrom was born Ephraim Hofstaedter in Poland, but after becoming a...
Unfortunately, good theatre-like Cambridge romances, occasional impulses toward optimism, and New England spring days on which the sun doesn't dissolve into rain-is an ephemeral creature. And since David Boorstin's intelligent and suitably enchanting production of The Tempest has already come and gone (it played the Loeb...