Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rehearsal, by Jean Anouilh. The world will ferret out purity and destroy it-this is the theme that obsesses Anouilh. In The Rehearsal, the worldlings commit an "elegant and sophisticated crime," the murder of the true love, as undeniably transfiguring as it is seemingly banal, that exists between a jaded French count and a virginal governess. Around this crime Anouilh has fashioned a subtle, scintillating, and bitter black comedy. The ironic gaiety is inverted mourning, the unseen tears are those that disillusionment sheds over its lost illusions...
...forgetting for a minute his role of presidential possibility, Goldwater said: "I have been told that to vote against this treaty is to commit political suicide ... I commit it gladly...
...subsidiary of the J. Arthur Rank organization. But Rank dissolved the subsidiary before the film could be produced, and the script vanished into the Rank bank. Richard Burton owns it now, in partnership with a New York producer, and sooner or later Burton intends to commit the story to film, with himself starring as an island trader named Wiltshire...
Concerning the term "monk barbecue show," Viet Nam is a strange country where people often commit spectacular suicides before the gates of people whom they wish to curse. I find that custom barbaric. My aim was to try to stop the spreading of bad examples by ridiculing what I considered grotesque customs. I am stunned to see my well-intended purpose maliciously distorted by ill-intended elements who use my words to fit a false, ugly, obsolete and well-organized anti-Catholic propaganda which tries to present the Vietnamese people as an innocent Buddhist majority under a cruel dictatorship...
...constant litigation-suits, countersuits and Government investigations. Moreover, while several of Cohn's companies lost money, his own wealth grew to an estimated $2,000,000. Then came last week's federal grand jury indictment, accusing Cohn and another attorney, Murray Gottesman, of perjury, conspiracy to commit perjury, and conspiracy to obstruct justice...