Word: lessing
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...when it suspected that people were presently Communists, or under Communist influence, Harvard was less sympathetic, according to contemporary newspaper accounts and later scholarship...
...that time of year again. Once more we find ourselves directing drunk sophomores around our Houses well past midnight. We are accosted by strange picket lines on the way to the Science Center. Not since the last issue of The Lampoon has there been a sight less funny than the signs protesting women's suffrage that were hoisted by overly intoxicated initiates this week. (Yeah, and it was offensive and misogynistic too.) Not since last year's chicken scandal (when Phoenix Club hopefuls were required to keep live chickens in their dorm rooms for a week) have we had such...
Though the WHO claimed that MDR tuberculosis infection was untreatable and that the costs would be forbiddingly high, Kim silenced opposition with an 85 percent cure rate in a shantytown in Lima, Peru, using less expensive generic drugs...
...recital began with the Vitali Chaconne, a staple of Perlman's repertoire but no less beautiful for that. The piece, which was the first piece that Heifetz performed in America, allowed the violinist to display a good deal of technical mastery within a supremely lyrical setting...
...Given the tendency of the affluent to secede...to buy their way out [of societal institutions], there's less mixing of classes and people," he said. "And when there's not enough of a common life that people think they're in a common project, democracy falls apart...