Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cheers for Hitler. With Verwoerd at the helm, Die Transvaler was less of a newspaper than a political broadsheet...
...Hertzog made a pact with the South African Party's pliable Jan Christian Smuts-whom Verwoerd considered a tool of the British-he was so disgusted that he joined Afrikanerdom's ultranationalist secret society, the Broederbond (brotherhood). With a young Transvaal lawyer named Johannes Strijdom, he founded Die Transvaler, an Afrikaans-language newspaper, to put across their message. Verwoerd resigned from Stellenbosch to become the editor...
...newspaper does not die suddenly. It is slowly consumed by disease that spreads throughout the structure. First it loses a vivid editor, then its best reporters, then its power to lure talent and youth. It dies because advertising shrinks and economies prune live branches with the dead wood; it dies because unions want more money and it has none to give. Yet it dies hard, lingering on until even the stubbornest owners realize that the only answer is a mercy killing...
...Felony Squad. "On our show the viewers will see the crime committed, so they know the guy's guilty. That way, nobody gets upset when we shoot him." Most often the TV crook will bite the dust in the usual gunfight finale, but on occasion he may die in an auto crash or fall to his death from a tower or cliff. In short, the good guys will still be beating the bad guys-at least...
...three madrigals were Thomas Morley's "Phyllis I fain would die now," Mein Schifflein lief in wilden Meer by Johann Schein, and the two-part madrigal Altri canti di Marte by Claudio Monteverdi. They were sung under the direction of Mr. Schmidt by the Chamber Chorus. The Chamber Chorus, which is made up of a small portion of the Summer School Chorus, produces an over-all sound which, while generally excellent, sometimes becomes a bit too rich and developed to permit the listener to savor the true flavor of this type of music. The actual interpretation of the music -- balancing...