Word: died
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point the German press joined in. Reporting the "antipathy of the majority of the British people," Hamburg's Die Welt declared: "This is disappointing to many of us who had expected more progress in friendship during the past few years. Now we know we were wrong." The Germans' sensitivity, in turn, stung the British. "What the hell can they expect?" asked one harassed British official. "Heuss was jolly lucky not to have anything thrown...
Amid outcries about freedom, characters die as if it were the last act of Hamlet; amid tirades against power, slave girls uncover and Caligula runs wild. If there is a unifying note in all this it is that the characters, whether male or female, slave or free, vile or virtuous, slain or spared, are orators one and all. So much oratory has its touches of eloquence, so much theatricalism its flashes of theater. But the play as a whole is lumberingly lurid, and Alvin Epstein's Claudius offers some adroit stammering that is more effective than anyone else...
...either case, the dentist has become a celebrated crusader. A naturalist sees in him the hope of the world. "Man," he says, "is destroying the plants, the animals, all the living roots that heaven planted in the earth. Poison heaven at its roots, and the tree will wither and die. The stars will go out, and heaven will be destroyed." And the hero concludes: "Who knows? If man begins by saving the elephants, he may end by saving himself...
...King Must Die, Renault...
...Guard band played the funeral dirge, a large Red banner was nailed upon the wall with the letters in gold, "The leaders die, but the cause lives...