Word: dies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though she assigned them to her grandmother, they were her words. Each of the 80 paintings in her diary of despair echoes them-first with innocent uncertainty, then with primitive clarity, finally with resignation. Older than Anne Frank but, like her, a German, a Jew, and doomed to die, she recounts her life as a string of fatal instants that flash past like dagger thrusts...
...moral: the meek shall inherit the earth-when they learn to fight for their rights. Ikiru (1952), Kurosawa's greatest work, describes the tragedy and transfiguration of a hopelessly ordinary man, a grubby little bookkeeper who does not dare to live until he learns he is going to die. Yojimbo (1962), conceived as a parody of the usual Hollywood western, mingles blood and belly laughs in a ferocious satire on the manners, morals and politics of the 20th century. I Live in Fear (1955), an eerie and comminatory meditation on the life of man in the shadow...
...sales through August dropped to fewer than 44,000 cars, and the company-whose automotive division has operated in the red for eight of the past nine years-lost $7,500,000 in 1963's first half. Clearly, 1964 will be Studebaker's do-or-die year...
Last Talk. "Poets die in different ways," Frost told Untermeyer in 1947, when he was 73. "Most of them do not die into the grave but into business as you almost did, or into criticism as so many of them are doing nowadays." Frost refused to do either. He had just brought out a book of poems, his 22nd, when he died of combined pulmonary embolism and pneumonia at 89. He had not changed his character, either...
...energy given only to monomaniacs, Nechaev went from group to group demanding as a first principle the ritual assassination of the visible enemies of freedom: the Czar's officials, and ultimately the Czar himself. As a corollary, they were told that they themselves must be willing to die, and to kill, when necessary, each other...