Word: died
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Must Die begins innocently, even happily. It is a day of triumph for a small Greek community. Their local oppressor, the Turkish Agha, has benevolently granted his Christian subjects permission to engage in their religion; he has allowed them to stage their passion play. But he, in his infidelity, and the town, in its belief, do not realize that more than a church festival is at stake. Able to cope with the reality of Turkish conquest, they are not really able to cope with belief...
...emphasis of He Who Must Die is on the "Must": the inevitable fate of believing. As members of the excited village are singled out to play the Passion, they alone grasp the responsibility of their roles. Judas draws back and cries out against his fate. What the newly chosen disciple John can not yet articulate is already implicit: another Christ is to be crucified. Belief, believed in, must die...
...when I die Bury me with my head under the tap So that if a drop of that very good wine falls I can get some good...
...Died. Walter F. Munford, 59, president of U.S. Steel Corp., who worked (1919) at nights as a die reamer for a subsidiary of U.S. Steel in Worcester, rose to be president of American Steel and Wire Division (1953), executive vice president (1958); of a stroke following a knife wound, said to be accidental, at his summer cottage on Cape Cod; in Hyannis, Mass...
...adapted for the movies by Jean-Paul Sartre, the Salem witch trials emerge as a plot by the aristocracy to chastize and control the stiff-necked rabble of the town. Thus, in the movie version, Proctor chooses to die for a cause rather than to preserve his own integrity. This distortion, coupled with an over-simplification of the motives of each character, considerably lessens the dramatic power of Miller's play...