Word: viciousness
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...students wanted to ask Director-designate Walter Adams some well-founded questions about his administration of University College, Rhodesia, the LSE authorities stuck to the letter of their regulations. The students had no "constitutional capacity" to raise doubts about the next Director, and their questions were dismissed as a "vicious character attack...
Catinella beat another West Point foe, 3-2, in a vicious consolation match. Also fourth-seeded, Harvard's 177 lb. Jim Abbott was upset, 7-4, in the quarter-finals by Pete Thompson of Princeton. Bruce Goodman and John Eng lost their first round matches and were eliminated from the tournament...
...characters in Twelfth Night act so cruel that they seem insane, but that is no license to turn the play into a cut-rate Marat-Sade. To interpret the play that way is to say, "Be calm, audience, real people are nice. You have to be bonkers to be vicious." The audience should not be allowed to rest so easy...
...stumbles onto the secret of a long-buried treasure. Once back in Macao, he develops a case of justifiable paranoia when he is set upon by a chic Chinese princess (Nancy Kwan) who keeps sticking out her tong at him. Following this he is mugged and bugged by a vicious racketeer (Christian Marquand) and an avaricious police inspector...
...improve the society they live in, that violent revolution is the best way to begin. Sade (Patrick Magee) stands on the contrary for moral autarchy; he believes that the only way to change the world is to change the people who live in it, that revolutions revolve in a vicious circle and get humanity nowhere...