Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night while striding down the street in black-caped majesty, this Harvardian aroused the suspicions of a Cambridge officer, who obviously felt that no law-abiding citizen should be caught dead in a long black cape. Seeing this sinister character emerge from a dark side-street, the officer immediately summoned the assistance of two Cambridge youths in order to detain the supposed culprit. The appearance of uncivil inhabitants of the town at an official arrest caused some confusion in the student's mind, and ill-considered words were exchanged on both sides. When the student was found to be without...
...Shapiro '58 of Winthrop House and South Minneapolis, Minn., and Richard W. Iverson '57 of Lowell House and Minneapolis suffered serious injuries when a car driven by Frederick S. Hird, 3rd, '57 crashed into the on-coming autobile of Alphius O. Fulton of Arlington. Mrs. Fulton was pronounced dead on arrival at the Lowell Hospital. Her son, John, 11, was treated for superficial cuts and was released along with his uninjured father...
Uncharted Seas. Confronting the jury, as the members wheeled about the galleries, was an array of the styles that have turned contemporary painting into a seething, uncharted sea of rival techniques, fads and dead-end experiments. They ranged from the surface violence of U.S. Painter Willem de Kooning's grotesque female portraits to the acrid brilliance of German painters like Fritz Winter, still haunted by Klee and Kandinsky. Paint surfaces varied all the way from Holland's Karel Appel, who trowels on paint like a pastry cook slathering on frosting, to the latest French vogue for tachism (staining...
Early reports on the results of flood disasters always reckon the damage in terms of immediacy and emotion. The number of homeless and dead occupy the front pages of morning-after newspapers and find their way into radio bulletins. This initial reaction is natural, but when the waters recede, the real disaster will be primarily a financial one. Victims may escape with their lives, but, because they are uninsured, they will never recover from the economic effects of the floods...
...Author Mailer by way of a tag (from André Gide). There is not much to understand in this narrative about the life of the West Coast's film fauna: the prose and the sex are as thick as ever. This seemed forgivable in The Naked and the Dead; the boys in a jungle combat platoon ("Kinsey's Army," as one British reviewer called it) were not supposed to talk like lady members of a book club. But in The Deer Park (the title is taken from a huge private sex resort maintained by Louis XV of France...