Word: distractedness
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The hero of the play is a priest, a kind of angry young martyr of burning faith and compassion who deliberately pins the yellow Star of David to his cassock and eventually goes to his death in the gas chambers. Father Riccardo Fontana (Jeremy Brett) is a Jesuit serving with...
As Ester, Ingrid Thulin seethes with the conflicts that kill, projecting a sad heroism that may well surpass the script's intentions. "I am known for my clear logic," she cries, but her body betrays her. During a hot, restless afternoon, she seeks escape from "horrible forces" in liquor...
For all their moral granite, the Scots clearly had their problems. A 1661 statute, designed to curb rebellious youth, decreed that any "sonne or daughter above age of sextein yeers not being distracted [demented] shall beate or curse their father or mother shall be put to death without mercy." On...
Who Is Best? The dispute has made a shambles of two COMECON meetings in recent weeks, and may force Moscow to call a summit meeting of party secretaries to resolve it. Even then, COMECON's efforts to assign production will face years of delay. Methods of figuring production costs...
Flying Saucers. His fancies led him everywhere. He went to Uganda to study the noble savages and swing their rhinoceros whips. He went to New Mexico, and while listening to the words of a Taos Indian chief, began for the first time to wonder about the morality of the Crusades...