Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheesy waltz, suddenly interrupted by the entrance of a woman on the way to the funeral of her son, who had been killed fighting for the Irish Republic. Most of the party, suddenly chastened, troop out as mourners, and the man who had been forced to inform on the dead soldier tries to relieve his feelings in a desperately gay dance...
...executions. Costa Rica's ex-President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres, an early Castro supporter, sent a short note "suggesting" that Castro postpone his planned Costa Rica visit. Castro was annoyed but unmoved. "Have you seen the pictures of the Cubans murdered by Batista?" he demanded. "Ave Maria Purisima! The dead shout out for justice...
...lifting her eyes serenely above the Mississippi bar of justice at which she stands condemned for throttling a six-month-old infant to death in its crib. Nancy is a Negro ex-prostitute, but her crime is a mere postscript to the horror-gorged life of her mistress, the dead child's mother, who is enslaved to the devil in the flesh. Mrs. Gowan Stevens was formerly Temple Drake, society-girl heroine of Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, to which Requiem for a Nun is a sequel. While the law has dealt with Nancy, it is the Furies...
...point the facts jibe. A bandit (Rod Steiger) has stalked a passing samurai (Noel Willman) and his wife (Claire Bloom) through a bamboo glade, decoyed the husband with promises of buried loot, trussed him up, and raped his wife before his eyes. The samurai is later found dead. According to the bandit, the wife baited him into killing her husband to gain her. The wife swears she killed him to spare him dishonor. Through a medium, the dead samurai claims that he heartbrokenly committed suicide. All three versions are exposed as self-interested lies when the eyewitnessing woodcutter gives...
...much political pressure and savvy behind it, major housing legislation at this session is assured. What both Houses seem likely to settle for in the end is a bill in which the Administration will gain some minor points, give ground on others to proponents of more extensive subsidies. Already dead, apparently, is the President's idea of lifting all ceilings on FHA mortgage insurance, the backbone of the private-enterprise housing program. Instead, Congress is moving in the direction of handing out $5 billion of mortgage insuring authority for the rest of this fiscal year, $5 billion for next...