Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through that night and into the next afternoon, Hale bobbed about helplessly, suffering such excruciating pain from the cold that "I hoped I would die." Though he was unaware of it, nobody knew of his plight; the Morrell had not even sent off an SOS. Not until 34 hours after she sank, when another freighter came upon the floating corpse of a seaman wearing a Morrell life jacket, was a search launched. Two hours later, a Coast Guard helicopter sighted Kale's raft, and divers in rubber suits hoisted him and his three dead mates aboard...
Though the Law School has nine Negroes, it also still has its die-hard segregationists. But most of them are clearly on the defensive. In the last few months, Dave Clark, a freshman, has become the standard bearer in a small-scale campaign to return segregation and conservatism to the Law School. Complaining of the "Yale invasion," he has written a number of letters to the editor of the Mississippian, the University daily, attacking Dean Morse and the "leftists" that are "leading the Law School down the road of liberalism...
...WAGNER: DIE WALKURE (5 LPs; London). Following close upon last year's triumphant Gotterdammerung, London completes its new recordings of the complete Ring cycle with a wonderful Walkure. Conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti again heaps high all the sumptuous glories of the Wagnerian orchestra, at the same time charging every passage of Wotan's family fracas with drama. The lush and beautiful singing is alive with emotion, the stars being an international assemblage of accomplished artists: Birgit Nilsson as Briinnhilde, Regine Crespin as Sieglinde, Christa Ludwig as Fricka, and Hans Hotter as Wotan. Not quite so great...
...goes. There is a grisly interlude about Kito, a little Japanese girl who performs a striptease in the "Su-Chuan manner," that is, with the help of a large black dog. Unfortunately, little Kito dies, or seems to die, from an overdose of an experimental drug, and her body is sold to be served with various sauces in a well-known Hong Kong restaurant. As the narrator puts it: "The Chinese cuisine has the advantage of making its contents unrecognizable...
...folk will die...