Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night the chief interrogator came to Dean and told him he would be tortured in the morning. He thought of splinters to be thrust under fingernails and set afire to make a man talk. Dean, who had become increasingly depressed, decided to commit suicide. "Dean," he told himself, "you don't know whether you can take it or not. You might talk. You'd better kill yourself...
Tragedy of Hormones. When in 1920 his father saw his first Broadway hit, Beyond the Horizon, a bitter domestic drama, he grumbled: "Are you trying to send the audience home to commit suicide?" But the audiences seemed to enjoy the beating they took. In the ripe years 1920-35, O'Neill made almost $1,000,000. Three plays (Horizon, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude) won the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1936, he became the second American (after Sinclair Lewis) to win the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...This kind of mistake could be professionally damaging," said the attorney. "After all, a lawyer lives by attracting legal work from people who are well disposed toward him. People could see the picture and associate an innocent man with entirely false connotations." Despite his annoyance, White would not commit himself on whether or not he intends to sue Life for libel...
Pondering. He would lurch back into court and lie with his head down until he decided that it was his turn to talk. "I'll remain in prison until I die," he vowed. "If anyone tries to release me, I'll find a way to commit suicide." "Now, now," soothed the court president. "You're not going to die. Please, just try to talk about the jurisdiction of this court." His lawyer also tried to get him to talk on the issue. Mossadegh screamed: "You're the son of a burnt father...
...These problems are external in the sense that their origins are not in the University's control; there are in addition two further problems, the product of powerful 'internal' forces. The first is an often legitimate failure of the student to commit himself to the work Yale offers; the second allied to this failure of interest, is the great complex problem of student maturity, or lack of it. Taken together these forces put a definite limit on Yale's effectiveness in the early years of college...