Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Ho, what? Lacouture is not encouraging to those who think that Ho's lifelong dream of a united, independent Viet Nam will die with him. Once, when temporarily out of the country, Ho was asked if he worried about what his subordinates might be up to. "What could they possibly do without me?" he answered serenely. "It was I who made them." Being so fashioned in his image, Lacouture thinks, Ho's heirs can dream no other dream...
...ample hints in the text of possible directions towards which the play could have been pitted. One such is the line towards the end of the play delivered by Dr. Bonfant, "One must never understand one's enemies . . . One must never understand anyone for that matter or one will die of it." This strikes a theme so rich, with its Hamlet-like overtones and its implications about the difficulties of taking violent revolutionary political action that a play constructed around it could have been immensely profitable...
Lavinia: I have now no doubt at all that I must die for something greater than dreams or stories. . . . If it were for anything small enough to know, it would be too small to die for. I think I'm going to die for God. Nothing else is real enough to die...
...Pope was also explicit in his description of what lies after death, despite the fact that modern theologians tend to interpret the Bible's previews more in terms of symbolism. "We believe in the life eternal," said Paul. "We believe that the souls of all those who die in the grace of Christ, whether they must still be purified in Purgatory or whether from the moment they leave their bodies Jesus takes them to Paradise, are the people of God in the eternity beyond death, which will be finally conquered on the day of the resurrection when these souls...
...over the kidney's work. Yet the machines are scarce, and of the deserving victims only 1,400 get the treatment, a figure that inevitably leads to hand-wringing tales of doctors and hospital administrators who must play God, deciding which kidney patients to save and which to let die...