Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bedrooms: the youngsters had been strangled to death with nylon stockings and a necktie; Mrs. Hanbey had tried to strangle herself, to cut her wrists and ankles, and to set fire to the house. She was hospitalized, whimpering that she had murdered her children and crying, "Let me die...
...heroine (Bea Richards) is a Harlem storefront preacher, and she preaches and preaches and worries and cries. The husband she left years ago, an alcoholic trombonist, has come home to die, and that turns out to be a play-length process. The son she has cowed into seemingly submissive piety sneaks out to bars, and surreptitiously plays his father's jazz recordings. A kind of Greek chorus of Harlem harpies gibber, clown, and rummage about as if they were witnessing the fall of a discount house of Atreus...
...says Dr. Charles Philip Price, Episcopal preacher at Harvard. "The act of taking her life could be at best a distorted and mistaken decision." One of High Oaks's directors, in fact, insists that Mary was responding well to the spiritual treatment. Even if she was certain to die, argue pastors, no one has the right to take into his own hands the decision to shorten another person's life...
...fair price, and see the eyes of a man whose last links to life were cruelly severed decades ago in a Nazi concentration camp. Now he speaks of those days as if he were carving an epitaph: "Everything I loved was taken from me, and I didn't die...
...inveterate Crimson readers will recall with nostalgia H. Lewiss's chilling serial "The Circle of Seven," the first five episodes of which appeared in these pages during the spring of 1962. Mr. Lewiss's accidental death in an avalanche on Die Jungfrau brought the series to an untimely (and most unfinished) end. Now, at last, the Crimson is able to publish the entire story, for the late author's younger brother, C. Lewiss, a graduate student in Mineralogy, has completed the manuscript and kindly made available a final version of this mystery masterpiece. Episodes of "The Circle of Seven" will...