Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...timing, the judge coolly remarked: "Well, who would think of marking down the date anyway." Nor did the court make any attempt to call another of the arrested Americans, Staff Sergeant Joseph Proietti, who did not claim to have been beaten himself but who last week wrote to his brother in New York...
...Lawrence Alan Tisch, 36, president of Tisch Hotels, Inc. and largest stockholder in Loew's Theatres (15%), was elected a Loew's director and chairman of its finance committee. Brooklyn-born Larry Tisch, a New York University graduate ('42), and his brother Robert, 33, own the largest chain of U.S. resort hotels (seven with 2,800 rooms, including Miami Beach's Americana and Atlantic City's Traymore), now worth $60 million. They started with a $175,000 investment in Lakewood, NJ.'s Laurel-in-the-Pines Hotel in 1946. Tisch started buying into Loew...
...stand out that they obscure several other important assets. First, Gibson's play is astoundingly free of the oversentimentality that could so easily bog down an enterprise of this kind. Second, the rest of the cast, particularly Patricia Neal as Helen's mother and James Congdon as her half-brother, is very fine. Certain minor defects are also obscured: Torin Thatcher, as Helen's father, is rather rough and overly blustery; both the second and final curtains could use a little tightening...
Sebastian Knight, a novelist, has fallen through the last trap door, death. His half brother, the nameless first-person narrator of the novel, feels the loss like a psychic amputation. It is as if a great secret had been buried with Sebastian, perhaps the meaning of life itself. The half brother determines to ferret out the secret by reconstructing Sebastian Knight's life in a biography. His quest takes him to a college chum of Sebastian's at Cambridge who recalls a miserable emigre trying desperately to be more pukka than the sahibs. (Nabokov graduated from Cambridge...
...your luck is good, King Romulus keeps saying, you can get away with anything, from the murder of a twin brother (Remus) to the rape of the Sabine women. While his ragtag followers, mostly brigands and landless peasants, build the new city of Rome on the left bank of the Tiber, Romulus keeps on talking. He is, he assures them, the son of the war god Mars, and was suckled by a she-wolf as a baby. As presented by British Author Duggan, that veteran rewrite man of ancient history (Winter Quarters, King of Pontus), Rome's founder...