Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly forgotten nowadays is the fact that Malraux's passion for art once led him to commit an act of downright thievery that got him arrested. The incident, a cause célèbre in 1923, has popped up again with the publication in France of the memoirs of his ex-wife Clara, and a biography by Walter Langlois subtitled Indochina Adventure...
STRATFORD, Conn.--I suppose almost everyone has been put through Julius Caesar as a high-school sophomore and been forced to commit some of its speeches to memory. For all its familiarity the play remains, like Beethoven's Fifth, a rattling good work; and no one should shrink from mounting it on that account...
...that Boyd and Mrs. Carpenter are both divorced, have had a "social relationship," were both fired on Dec. 7, 1964, and made their decision to expose Dodd later. O'Hare, 30, acknowledged that Miss Golden, 23, an attractive redhead, is his "girl friend," and that he did not commit himself fully to helping Boyd until after she had been dismissed last October. Time ran out at week's end, before Dodd, at his own request, could take the witness chair...
...change his plea, said Judge Weinfeld; more important for other cases, even if Brenner had kept his word, the whole pact violated rules of "fundamental fairness." Such bargains, said Weinfeld, are inherently wrong because of "the unequal positions of the judge and the accused, one with the power to commit to prison and the other deeply concerned to avoid prison." A guilty plea "predicated upon a judge's promise of a definite sentence," he added, "by its very nature does not qualify as a free and voluntary...
Lawmen plunged into the woods after the gunman. Moments later they brought out Aubrey James Norvell, 40, a pipe-smoking, unemployed hardware salesman from Memphis. Ultimately, Norvell, with no known involvement in racial issues, was charged with assault with intent to commit murder...