Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three characters of Sartre's morality play find themselves in a hotel room where they must tear each other's guts out in spite and frustration like hideous ghouls from Dante. One is a Lesbian who seduced a happily-married woman and drove her to commit suicide. The other woman in this drawing-room Hades is far less willing to acknowledge her evil. She has killed her baby in front of her lover and he blew his brains out afterwards. The third and most intelligible character is a "fearless" journalist who helped himself to all the indulgences due a hard...
...rising middle class by focusing on the story of a valet in a decadent Swedish noble household who seduces--or, more properly, is seduced by--the daughter of the house. Appalled at what she has done, the weak-willed Miss Julie maneuvers the valet into forcing her to commit suicide...
Bundy said he saw no need for reduction in the size of the class. He refused to commit himself on the chances for a larger class next year, however, saying that "the size of the class is not decided in December...
...world's worst actress, but only that she is miscast in any role requiring dialogue. This would not be a serious fault if she were really beautiful. Sinatra drops Rita, his meal-ticket, for Kim's virginal, Alburquerque wholesomeness. The movie does not explain why he would want to commit such an ironically self-defeating...
...week's end another NATO foreign minister, West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano, arrived in Washington fresh from Rome to discuss plans for the NATO meeting. With him he brought a German-Italian proposal that NATO members commit themselves to consultation with the other allies before carrying out any major policy decision. Since this seemed to imply a veto power over any U.S. decision to retaliate instantly if attacked, Dulles turned it down, pointed out that the U.S. cannot unconditionally commit itself to advance consultation, thereby curbing presidential power to act quickly in a crisis...