Word: dies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America," declaimed South Carolina's Representative Mendel Rivers, "is too young to die! Meet your challenge! The tocsin sounds, your country calls. We will walk this road together. Tell us your story, and I give you my word you will not bear this cross alone...
...there now!" And she adds, with a characteristic touch of superstition, that Stalin's soul, "so restless everywhere else," may still haunt that gloomy refuge. Svetlana last saw him two months before his death in March 1953. Trusting no doctors, he took quack remedies; he was to die of a massive stroke. As she records her fa ther's death, the full meaning of her ambivalence toward him rises from the page: she felt her "heart breaking from grief and love"-this after having characterized Stalin's "cruel and implacable nature...
...last speaker, Rap Brown, brought the rally to a high pitch with his last statement. Pounding his fist, he shouted, "Ours is not to do or die, ours is but to reason why: Hell...
Climax has stopped being funny now, as Sergio literally begins to die of loving. Unfortunately, Producer-Writer-Director Pietro Germi almost spoils his curiously bittersweet comedy about the trials of trigamy with a mawkish funeral finale in which Sergio's voice provides a disembodied commentary. But not even this last false touch dims the luster of Actor Tognazzi's exquisitely humane performance as a man who loves not wisely but too well...
English is virtually without gender-it is, in fact, suspiciously without sex. Dr. Hartogs was educated in Germany, where a girl (das Mddchen) is neuter, spring (der Fruhling) is masculine, and a door (die Tiir) is feminine (apparently the doctor cannot bear to hear one slammed). As he sees it, a language in which only he and she are sexed must be up to no good. In English, what is the sex of a bicycle, an eggplant, a subway? None. And what does this engender? According to Dr. Hartogs and Hans Fantel, a "professional writer" who has tried to guide...