Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wartime espionage on behalf of Russia, New York Psychiatrist Robert Soblen, 61, jumped $100,000 bail and fled to Israel, using a dead brother's Canadian passport to gain entry. A Lithuanian-born Jew, Soblen expected Israel to let him stay, but Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion bent to U.S. pressures and arranged to send Soblen back in the general direction of the U.S. aboard a flight of the government-controlled airline, El Al. As a result of covert but obvious cooperation between U.S. and Israeli authorities, Soblen was accompanied on the flight by one James J. P. McShane...
...enrolled in a zesty enterprise called Operation Kindness, sponsored by United Community Services, which has 4,300 youngsters on duty in 106 agencies and institutions in greater Boston. The unpaid helpers are busy at everything from running bingo games to skinning rabbits for medical researchers at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. At a Massachusetts state mental hospital, a 15-year-old "beautician" cheerily restyles the hairdos of psychotic women and says: "I just love Nantasket Beach in the summer, really I do. But−well, I like this better...
...like a blackface minstrel of death steals out behind the Chinese lines on a one-man patrol. With snakelike grace, he slithers up to an isolated and unwary outpost guard and slits his throat or plunges a knife into his heart. Then follows an infinitely more chilling ritual: the bent-over Endore circles round and round the enemy corpse in a silent, semihysterical Indian war dance...
...Bent on Tragedy. Most men would aver that he was overscrupulous, a man often rendered impotent by the severity of his own dedication. For most of his working life, that dedication was placed at the service of journalism and films-to his admirers' regret. Reading the letters to Father Flye, it is easy to see how his great hopes might always be somehow frustrated by something else...
...bent toward tragedy, it is pleasant to note that Agee's last letter was one in which he was able to extract an amiable fantasy from the world of caged, frustrated animals. The letter is in the form of a draft for a film script about circus elephants. They are taught to dance by Choreographer George Balanchine but are shamed by being made huge fools of. "Later that night the wisest of them, extending his trunk, licks up a dying cigar butt, and drops it in fresh straw. All 36 elephants die in the fire. Their huge souls, light...