Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kishi thought he knew where some of the blame lay for the crime and violence that has rocked Japan since the end of the war: it lay on the good intentions of U.S. occupation reformers, and their determination to safeguard the Japanese against intimidating cops...
...write a verse play with a contemporary theme and a contemporary setting. The drawing-room setting he contrived was not only fitted for traditional moments of comedy, it made for eerie moments of contrast. The nobleman hero's return to his family, to confess to his own guilty crime while absent and then to smoke out the atmosphere of crime and guilt that haunted his childhood, is charged with ominous Aeschylean echoes. The Greek Furies themselves still hunt the criminal down, until he is able to convert an Orestes-like fleeing from doom into a Christian pursuit of salvation...
...wreck," having studied unsuccessfully for the priesthood; that his father was a seaman, his mother a pious termagant, his brother a "great, rearing, clumsy bucko." Why was Peter in jail? The question involves a real novelist's art-the reverse of the whodunit, which is to disclose the crime and disguise the motive. Halfway through the book, when all the motives are clarified, Peter's crime is disclosed: he has killed a woman and stuffed her mouth with banknotes...
...campaigning against the incumbent, Republican Arthur Watkins, and a Democratic hopeful named Frank E. (Ted) Moss. Watkins is notable for nothing beyond his chairmanship of the McCarthy censure committee. Moss, as county attorney of Salt Lake County, had most of his crime-busting thunder stolen by Salt Lake City's over-vigilant, FBI-trained police chief. Moss did manage to beat an unknown young attorney named Brigham Roberts for the Democratic nomination, but he is not well known in the state or in its most populous areas...
When the church fails to raise up prophets, McCord feels, the world raises them up. Who are such secular prophets? Dostoevsky, in Crime and Punishment (but not Tolstoy-"there was too much sweetness and light about him"). Also Novelist Albert Camus, especially in his latest book, The Fall ("I think Camus is on a pilgrimage and he hasn't arrived"). Oddly, Theologian McCord also includes Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. If anyone criticizes such literary judgments, McCord has an answer: "I think the first thing the Lord requires of us is honesty. He requires you to be honest before...