Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dead. We are not out of business. We are not quitting." With these words, Dean Gitter '56, a managing director of Repertory Boston, Inc., told a luncheon meeting of area guests that R.B.I. will definitely resume activity in the fall...
...even more notable triumph was Slonimsky's temporary resurrection of English Opera Composer Edward Maryon (The Prodigal Son, The Cycle of Life), who was believed by his own publishers to be dead until Slonimsky, after a futile appeal to Scotland Yard, discovered him alive in London (when he died in 1954, 87-year-old Composer Maryon left Slonimsky all his manuscripts). On the other hand, Slonimsky has suffered his setbacks: no amount of sleuthing has ever revealed the official birth dates of Antonio Vivaldi or Enrico Caruso; no fewer than 13 Enrico Carusos were born in Naples...
...Navy hospital not long ago a 31-year-old chief petty officer suddenly broke off a casual conversation with a nine-year-old girl, grabbed the child by the throat, choked her and held her under water in a nearby tub until she was dead. Charged with murder, he at first denied the crime with such apparent sincerity that he fooled a lie detector. Later, remorseful, he confessed, but insisted that he could not remember the beginning of the attack, had just "suddenly discovered himself" strangling the girl...
...Manhattan last week Nancy Alverson, 31, left her 2½-year-old daughter Lorraine in their Greenwich Village apartment while she went shopping. Back in "a few minutes," she found the child dead, apparently of suffocation, with her head swathed in the adhering layers of a plastic garment...
...also the "communal joy" of comradeship and, sometimes, the delight in destruction: "Men who have lived in the zone of combat long enough to be veterans are sometimes possessed by a fury that makes them capable of anything . . . They storm against the enemy until they are either victorious, dead, or utterly exhausted...