Word: breach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effective Cauchon. While he is sympathetic, the role demands an unwavering conception of duty which permits little new interpretation. Theodore Bikel, as Robert de Beauricourt, is properly rowdy but perhaps a victim of the incongruity of French and American vulgarity. His almost Prussian manner may be an attempt to breach the gap, but it is an inadequate one. If Christopher Plummber had rendered Warwick American-style, the result would have been ludicrous. Happily, he has adopted all the confidence of the cynical Englishman looking down upon fifteenth century France. He is also an amusing, if unnecessary, intermediary between play...
Something of that feeling carries over into this English biography of Thomas a Becket, archbishop, martyr, and definitely a man who asked for it. Becket was the first famous victim in a struggle between church and state that culminated, four centuries later, in Henry VIII's breach with Rome. But historians are divided on Becket's role. To many he was a worldly opportunist who, somewhere along the way, underwent a remarkable spiritual conversion. Others saw him as a martyr only to ambition, who lost out in a struggle for power with his King. Britain's Alfred...
...inflamed against Britons, and with Greeks and Turks torn apart in a revival of an aged hatred, the case threatened to crumble the long southern flank of the NATO defense network. NATO's southern commander, U.S. Admiral William M. Fechteler, hastened to Athens and Ankara to examine the breach. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles sent an urgent message to the Greek and Turkish Premiers: "The partnership of Greece and Turkey constitutes a strong bulwark of the free world in a critical area. If that bulwark should be materially weakened, the consequences would be grave indeed...
Almost magically, humpty-dumpty was together again. What was he like after his great fall, and his miraculous bounce back to the high wall of fame? In recent months, Frank Sinatra has managed to irritate a crowd of 10,000 in Australia, sue a well-known producer for breach of contract and make it widely known that he "would rather punch him in the face," display scorn in public for Marlon Brando, alienate the affections of Sam Goldwyn, mount a wide-open attack on another entertainer in a prominent newspaper ad ("Ed Sullivan, You're sick . . . P.S. Sick! Sick...
...whose mistress was a masseuse in a Turkish bath; City Comptroller Richard ("Slippery Dick") Connolly, and Mayor Abraham Oakey ("Elegant Oakey") Hall, who wrote a play called Let Me Kiss Him For His Mother, and who, while District Attorney, gave a dramatic reading titled Dido versus Aeneas, an ancient breach of promise trial...