Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really believes that Communism in Eastern Europe is about to wither and die, but there are striking signs that there is less of the Stalinist sort of repression and a chance for a freer life (see THE WORLD). "There is a long-term trend working here," says a State Department official, "one of loosening relations between the East European countries and the Soviet Union. They are growing less dependent on Moscow, more assertive. And if relations between the West and the Soviets improve, the satellite countries are going to be able to broaden their contacts with the West...
...African Conference at Addis Ababa last May, Ben Bella remarked: "To free Africa, we must all be prepared to die a little." Ben Bella's people, sick of strife, would first like to live a little...
...obsessed by the fury, the brevity and the desolation of the pursuit of sexual pleasure. As Wedekind's translator put it, "he dealt in 'the hellish drive out of which no joy remains alive.' " In both of his plays, Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box), Wedekind centered this hell in a promiscuous woman, Lulu...
...needless it is unbearable." As Carnovsky interprets him, Lear is a man stripped of everything except the strength to protest. His final act, he points out, "is to accuse the gods, to say if you can do this, then life is not worth living. Lear then consents to die." What gives Lear dignity at last is his unflinching involvement in his own destruction. Through him, Carnovsky thinks, Shakespeare was saying "I am part of life, and I affirm...
...compassion for the talented, if twisted, master of the revels. As the osteopath lay unconscious, red-haired Julie Gulliver, a 23-year-old singer who had been his last, most loyal girl friend, burst out: "There's a whole crowd of people right now praying for Stephen to die so that their names won't be mentioned. I'm going to see that they...