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...death at 65, his armies had slaughtered millions from the Dnieper to the China Sea. Wayne's performance should go a long way toward paying the old warrior back. He portrays the great conqueror as a sort of cross between a square-shootin' sheriff and a Mongolian idiot. The idea is good for a couple of snickers, but after that it never Waynes but it bores...
With very few exceptions, Advocate stories in the past few years have invariably centered on either idiots or children. Last year, children seemed to hold the lead, but this year, apparently, the imbeciles have taken over. Realizing that these subjects are easier for developing writers to work with, one still wishes that they would occasionally, tackle something more mature. The current issue of the Advocate, however, seems to contradict this preference, for the two best stories concern an idiot and a retarded hillbilly, while the one supposedly mature characterization is a dismal failure...
...school students had been joined by 1,000 allies from the medical school. Between bloody, skull-busting fights, Falangists chanted, "Down with capitalism!" and "Down with the monarchy!" (assuming the students to be supporters of both), and sang an antimonarchist hymn which begins: "We don't want an idiot king who doesn't know how to govern." The anti-Falangist students countered with chants of "S.E.U. no! Falange...
Condemnation of Thomson's antics should be limited to the facts, however. Last week, when representatives of five student groups spoke out against Thomson's "underhanded" methods to "defeat the Political Forum," one of them went so far as to call Thomson "an idiot." This was a regrettable statement, primarily because the arguments against Thomson can stand without name-calling but also because unlike an idiot, Thomson knows exactly what he is doing...
...John Thomson is a first class bird dog; furthermore he is an idiot. Contending that Republican speakers would be dragged over the coals by a left wing organization goes against the fact that the Forum has had trouble finding members to oppose the resolution against recognition of Red China," charged George M. Fredrickson '56, past president of the Harvard Debate Council...