Word: death
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like men and keep your mouths shut." With 23 cases to consider, the khaki-clad farmers and paper-mill workers returned 17 indictments. Notably missing: indictment of lynch-law executioners of Mack Charles Parker, Negro rape suspect dragged from the unguarded Poplarville jail last April and shot to death...
...progress on anything else. Yet more was involved. Today's armaments include weapons capable of destroying civilization-and this unsettling thought makes any rational statesman ready to consider any practical alternatives, even if he is not convinced that the choice is confined to common agreement or collective death (another possibility: continuing disagreement that does not result in nuclear...
...when he started his masterpiece, the opera Jenufa. He was close to 50 when he finished the work and past 60 before he found an audience that could appreciate it. In its only U.S. production-during the 1924-25 Metropolitan Opera season, three years before Janacek's death-Jenufa (pronounced Yen-uffa) was roundly panned. In recent years, European opera houses have been looking at Jenufa with fresh admiration, and last week Chicago's Lyric Opera followed suit, gave the work its first U.S. performance in 35 years...
Rather melodramatically, Ghosts tells of the "lifeless old ideals, the dead beliefs," which forced Helene Aving to remain married to her wealthy but dissolute husband, whose venereal disease leads to his son's insanity. Since his death, these ideals have seemed to Mrs. Aving increasingly hollow, the sham life she led increasingly meretricious...
...Devil's Advocate, by Morris West. An effective, moving novel about a cancer-stricken priest who investigates the lives of a possible saint and of the sinners involved in his death...