Word: commiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dramatic heart of The Case of Yolande McShane, a powerful documentary shown last week on British television. The "case" began in March 1976 when Sussex police learned that Yolande McShane, 60, the wife of an artist, was urging her 87-year-old mother, Mrs. Edith Mott, to commit suicide. The daughter was deeply in debt and stood to inherit $70,000 upon her mother's death...
Enter Yorkshire TV, which decided that the case perfectly suited the network's goal of creating "socially committed documentaries that illuminate dark areas of our society." The producers persuaded McShane to tell her side of the story on camera. "My mother's been threatening to commit suicide for about 40 years," she explained. "It's a fantasy of hers." The lethal pills, she said, were a sort of "security" for her mother. As it happened, Mrs. Mott died of natural causes two weeks ago, ten days before the TV documentary went...
...have been afflicted with genius. Born in 1860 to a piano-manufacturing family, he quit school at the age of 14-but was teaching by the time he was 18. In his 20s and 30s, he pursued painting and photography with a dilettante's passion. Rolfe did not commit himself to serious writing until he was almost 40. The work barely bought dinner: his Chronicles of the House of Borgia was composed on a paltry advance of ? 1 per week...
Your story on youth crime is destructive and counterproductive. No one doubts that young people commit crime, though there is more violence inflicted on children by adults than on adults by youths. While that is not a justification of youthful violence, it is an aspect not to be ignored...
...provoked a battle with guards in which eleven people died and 27 were wounded. A year later townsmen of the Nile Valley village of Minya complained that the group was brainwashing their daughters and carrying them off as concubines. One young girl was even persuaded by the group to commit suicide as an atonement for her alleged sins...