Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Near the end of the first act of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England is on stage with his wife Alice, his daughter Margaret, and his future son-in-law, William Roper. Just leaving is Richard Rich, later to prove the mortal enemy who by perjury sends More to his death. Rich has aroused the suspicions of all, and Alice, Margaret, and Roper urge More to arrest him because be is a bad and dangerous man. More refuses, saying that Rich has broken no law. Exasperated, More's wife bursts...
...Hitchcock fans, A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt opened at the Loeb last night. Also at the Loeb beginning this evening, will be Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. Thursday evening will mark the opening of Oh, What A Lovely War by Joan Littlewood in Agassiz which is produced by the Harvard Dramatic Club Summer Players, and directed by the honorable Timothy S. Mayer...
...Summer Repertory Company will start its season Tuesday with Robert Bolt's A Man For All Seasons, to be presented in repertory with George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man, bowing Wednesday...
...Army Jeep slows as it corners on a bumpy, narrow forest road. From the back seat, two wild-eyed German SS troopers lunge uncertainly, then bolt for the nearby wood. A pistol crackles, and the running Germans plop forward on their faces. They were shot while attempting to escape, reports the U.S. Army lieutenant who gunned them down. Not so, insists a civilian witness: the troopers had been commanded to bolt and then were callously murdered. Getting at the truth turns out to be like peeling through several skins of an onion. First-Novelist Frederick Keefe, who is an editor...
...Connally's wounds were not caused by the same shot that struck Kennedy in the throat, there must have been two marksmen, since two shots could not have been aimed and fired so quickly from the bolt-action rifle which Oswald used...