Word: commit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This play, the first of this year's productions, is based on the tragedy "Oedipus, the King," by Sophocles. It concerns the prophecy that Oedipus would kill his father, and commit incest, and how that prophecy was fulfilled, and how Oedipus discovered his position...
...Club was found to be satisfactory from all standpoints, but until the Committee has learned more definitely concerning several other buildings now under consideration, it is unwilling to commit itself to a final decision...
...under guard. Home Minister Fumio Goto, responsible for the police of all Japan, was moving Heaven and earth to hush the scandal. He almost succeeded. Seventy-two hours after the wrong turn no Japanese paper yet dared mention it. Then Sergeant Honda, closely guarded to prevent his trying to commit suicide, outwitted his keepers and slashed a four-inch gash in his throat. As he was rushed to hospital the story broke wide open. In Tokyo almost everyone expected the Home Minister, the Governor of the Prefecture and all officials however remotely concerned to resign...
...play, which is based on the tragedy "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles gains modernity from the Freudian influence which is dominant in its construction. In the Greek play, Oedipus was sent away from home because it was predicted that he would kill his father and commit incest. Returning unexpectedly, he kills his father in ignorance of his identify, and marries his mother to become king. The play concerns the discovery of his position, and the retribution which overtakes him and his bride, Iocasta...
Italians call their present Chamber of Deputies the "Hara-kiri Chamber" because it is slated to commit suicide at II Duce's invitation and be replaced by either the small National Council of Corporations or the large General Assembly of the Corporative State. Since Mussolini was believed to favor the Council, there was a rustle of Fascist surprise last week when he seemed to destine the Assembly to succeed the Chamber of Deputies. "This Assembly," said Il Duce, "will substitute for another institution which belongs to a phase of history now relegated to the past...