Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...priest is torn by the Prince's demand that he tell the secrets of the confessional. Alone among the townspeople, Sperone, a poor, Christlike dyer, loves his fellow men enough to try to end the orgy of hate and suspicion. He confesses to the murder he did not commit, and so brings on the climax and the solution of the murder...
...unemployed Air Force veteran named Joseph Saccomano climbed to the belfry of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in The Bronx, and balanced there for an hour threatening to commit suicide. He ignored the pleas of priests, police and relatives. Then a photographer named Vincent Riccio looked upward and bellowed: "You're a chicken-livered, yellow phony . . . come on down and fight!" Snorting with rage, the would-be suicide scrambled down, was grabbed by the cops and toted off to have his head examined...
When Philip Davidson was sprung from prison after doing 17 years, there were a few Londoners who had a right to feel uneasy. Davidson had been sent up for a murder he did not commit, and two witnesses who might have established his innocence had remained inexplicably silent. So the police kept an eye on Philip Davidson. Commander Lowther, detective in charge, had a special interest in the case. His wife had once been Davidson's mistress, and one of the two witnesses who failed...
...students from the University and Radcliffe are accepted upon application. The advance registration does not commit them since they can cancel their registration simply by notifying the Summer School office in Weld 2. They can register either for the six week program opening July 1 and running to August 15, or the longer program, from July to August...
...learn French, they first went to a small resort town where no one spoke any English. Soon afterwards, in a Paris boardinghouse, Sheen met a Frenchwoman who lived on the floor above. In deep distress over the breakup of her home, she told Sheen she was about to commit suicide. Sheen begged her to wait just nine days. She agreed, and for eight evenings Sheen sat with her, talking religion. His French was still so halting that he kept a dictionary open before him. On the ninth day, the woman entered the Church...