Word: deathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mead linked student unrest with its coverage by the media. "Everyone will get bored to death soon with student demonstrations. If T.V. gets bored, students will turn their attention to something else," she said...
...take a dare and be close to danger is difficult in America. Not much more than a hundred years ago one could have wandered through unknown wilderness, chanced upon a few angry Indians and been killed, or run into wild animals to be trampled to death, or have to cross the plains and, running out of supplies, simply die of starvation. The world was an unavoidable challenge. Of the first Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, one half of them died in the first few months, and those who remained began a new experience in which danger was common...
...College, the B.D. from McCormick Theological Seminary, and the Th.D. in social ethics from the Harvard Divinity School. His book, War and Moral Discourse, will be published this spring. Last year, he served on an ad hoc committee at the Harvard Medical School to examine the definition of brain death...
...jazz musician, a composer, an engineer, an actor and a playwright as well as a novelist. Friend of writers like Sartre and Ionesco, habitué of the caves of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Vian was generally considered the prince of the enfants terribles of French existentialism. His death in 1959 at the age of 38 was sudden, but it could hardly be called unexpected. While he was alive, the only one of his books that sold was a semi-pornographic novel that he'd written for a bet under a pseudonym; his most successful song...
...Petite Marchande d'Allumettes and of Madame Bovary, in Batala of Le Crime de M. Lange, in the aviator of La Regle du Jeu. Renoir expresses the fixity of the particular film's world stylistically, ending the film with a few shots which show the world unchanged by the death of the maverick. Thus Petite Marchande ends with flat, illusionistic images; Boudu shows Boudu and the Lestingois in their completely separate environments, one free, one constricted; Lange and Valentine of Crime walk away into a dream-image...