Word: dies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quare Fellow. In this movie version of his first successful play, Brendan Behan storms out against capital punishment. And, because Irishmen laugh when others might weep, he also laughs at the way men are made to live in jail, and condemned to die...
...Serb Bulger die? And did he die in vain? Most Harvard men celebrate their coming of age with quiet joy; Serb marked his 21st birthday by jumping off the Larz Anderson Bridge. (His body was recovered a week later by the Harvard Student Agencies Dredging Service, and condolences were sent to his grieving parents through the HSA Condolence Agency in a rhyming telegram: "We have bad news for you/Your son's short life is through/ To manhood he had grew/But himself in the river he threw...
...Quare Fellow. Brendan Behan, like most Irishmen, laughs hardest when he hurts worst, and in this movie version of his first successful play he laughs at the way men are made to live, and condemned to die, in an average Irish prison...
...listening to music as thoroughly organized as, may, Le Marteau sans Maitre, one does not hear the grammar. Commenting in Die Reihe on another work of Boulez, Gyorgy Ligeti observes: "Seen at close quarters, it is the factor of determinism, regularity, that stands out; but seen from a distance, the structure, being the result of many separate regularities, is seen to be something variable and chancy, comparable to the way the network of neon lights flashes on and off in main street; the individual lamps are indeed exactly controlled by a mechanism, but as the separate lights flash...
Paris may no longer be the place good Americans go when they die, but to a dwindling group of American men of letters it still looks like the heaven that lay about them in their infancy...