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These cases illustrate a vexing dilemma now confronting modern medicine: Should lives of retarded infants or those with multiple birth defects be prolonged-at great cost in manpower, money and anguish-especially if the life that is preserved will almost certainly be one of pain or merely vegetable-like existence...
Papadopoulos lasted six years, until last November, when the stifled anguish and outrage of the Greek people finally exploded, ending his tyranny. On November 14, several people were convicted of "resistance to authority" and "public mischief" during a memorial service held ten days earlier for George Papandreou. That night 5000 students occupied the Polytechnic School in Athens. The next day by 6 p.m. about 40,000 demonstrators battled armed police with fists and planks torn from nearby construction sites...
...produced by the S.L.A. For Patricia's father Randolph is not only a wealthy, prominent citizen. He is also president and editor of the Examiner, and his daughter's abductors-members of the S.L.A.-have trapped him in a professional dilemma that is inseparable from his personal anguish...
...telephone rings and the friend is on the line. A vivid dream that becomes the morning reality. The sense of bumping into one's self around a corner of time, of having done and said just this, in this place, once before in precisely this fashion. A stab of anguish for a distant loved one, and next day, the telegram...
...drama unfolds with undistracted simplicity, eloquence and force. In Act I, Julian reveals the anguish and hysteria to which he was driven by Alan's abandonment. The two are reconciled and go to bed together. In Act II, Alan's wife Jacqueline makes a touching plea for Alan's return, but he refuses. In Act III, Alan discovers the seamy side of Julian: that he has been the most indiscriminate sort of male prostitute. Yet the two men finally agree that to deny their love for each other would be to make life not worth living...