Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quare Fellow. In this movie version of his first successful play, Brendan Behan storms out against capital punishment. And, because Irishmen laugh when others might weep, he also laughs at the way men are made to live in jail, and condemned to die...
...seminar in psychology some years ago and concluded that Boris was a hysteric and a manic-depressive. Boris' death, Hines has decided, is from cerebral hemorrhage, and he induces it onstage by temple-pounding. Bulgarian Basso Boris Christoff sees the tortured Czar as a man who "dies of his own sin, his own dishonesty-not heart trouble or mental illness." At the Met this season, operagoers have seen George London's Boris die twice (broken by the weight of genius); last week's schedule brought Giorgio Tozzi (a tender Boris enraged to death...
Boris' death scene gives every basso the dramatic treat of getting to pitch himself down a flight of stairs if he cares to. In Europe, Christoff and Petrov die quietly, as if by surprise, but the Met's staging invites a good fall. London, the intellectual Boris, dies intelligently-a heave, a cry, a little gasp, and he's gone, rolling gently down the stairs. Hines, though, plays it for all he's worth. Clawing the air, grasping his heaving chest, he cries his final line ("Forgive me! Forgive me!") and pitches himself headlong down...
...Died. John Edgar Breitenbach, 27, proprietor of a Wyoming mountaineering equipment store and member of a 20-man U.S. expedition sponsored by the National Geographic Society and several others, now climbing Mount Everest; when an ice wall collapsed and buried him as he worked to improve an ice route cut the previous day on Khumbu Glacier at 17,500 feet. He was the first American to die while trying to climb the world's highest mountain...
Like thousands of other French Canadians, he ignored the notifications that he had been drafted to fight in World War II-"that English war." "Why should you fight for the right to starve and die in your own country?" asked Caouette. He made his first political speech in 1941, and never forgot the cheers. Three years later, he ran as a Social Credit candidate in a provincial election, got licked, lost again in 1945 when he ran for the federal Parliament. In 1946, when his opponent died, he won the by-election to replace him, but lost again...