Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge visiting Professor Lowell, so he and another cousin called T.R. up and asked to see him. The vice-president said he was going to lecture in Lowell's Gov 1 course in Sanders the next morning. He would be glad to see them afterward. F.D.R. raced for the CRIME and reported his story. "Young man," the managing editor is supposed to have replied, "you hit page one tomorrow morning." The scoop appeared, Sanders Theatre was swamped, and F.D.R. gained election that June...
...exquisite prospect of journalistic mayhem was in the air. Grim critics, with knives sharpened and hatchets drawn, were on hand to slice up youthful (31) Karl Richter, regarded by loyal fans as the greatest musical talent of his generation in Germany. Organist-Harpsichordist-Conductor Richter had committed a double crime: irreverence for the mighty Bach and the almighty critics...
...Russia from 1903 to 1929. Feltrinelli's agent brought a manuscript to Italy, and a translation was made. Meanwhile the powerful Union of Soviet Writers got hold of the novel, decided that its "cumulative effect" was to depict the Bolshevik revolution "as if it were the great crime in Russian history." Extensive rewriting was "suggested...
...contradictory urges: to bring her back to life and have her with him always, and to destroy her as the cause of his frustration. In further studies, psychiatrists hope to learn why Eddie Gein's childhood experiences, unfortunate but far from unique, exploded in his case into such horrendous crime...
...Callas appeared in a black lace sheath and a blazing diamond necklace. She sang the final aria from Donizetti's Anna Bolena, in which the wronged queen, about to be beheaded, forgives all her enemies. At the last exultant phrase ("Only my blood is lacking to finish the crime, and this will be shed!"), Callas took a single step forward-so dramatic that people all but jumped. She raised a commanding hand over her head, then threw her arms wide and sent that last full note straight up through the roof...