Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chap in cloak and whiskers knifes his sister's suitor. The suitor was unwell anyway: a rival spitor gouged him in a duel before the brother came in with a stiletto. Both duelists officially die, secretly recover. Meanwhile the brother begs his sister to pretend she is going to have a child by the richer dead suitor. She pretends she is going to have one by the poorer one. The mother tries to turn her heretofore legitimate son into a bastard because he destroyed the prospective son-in-law who was her prospective lover. A pregnant nun appears...
Fulbright watered down the resolution so drastically during committee hearings that Johnson passed the word to let it die without coming to a Senate vote. Johnson still hopes to steer the generally responsive Latinos toward making the historic decision for the common mar ket, but the outcome will now depend more on his power of personal persuasion and less on the power of the dollar...
Such mixtures seem quite natural to Messiaen, who describes himself as "a born believer, musician and revolutionary." He taught himself to play the piano at eight, at ten was devouring the scores of Don Giovanni, Die Walkure and Pelleas et Melisande. He conceived a lifelong fascination with "all things mysterious and marvelous," and found that musical sounds gave him inner visions of colors; once, he got a stomach ache while watching a ballet because the violet hue of the lighting clashed so badly with the tonality of G major...
...court has yet tackled the problem of inheritance rights. In many states, illegitimate children of parents who die without a will can inherit property only from the mother, not the father. The best solution may be for parents to adopt the child and provide for him in a will. But many parents balk at adoption because it might become public knowledge; impotence and sterility are hardly matters that husbands care to reveal...
...strays of all sorts wandered in and out. One such stray was Gardar Holm, who had the loudest voice in Reykjavik, and who accordingly was sent to Copenhagen to become a singer. Another was a woman from across the island who came to Bjorn's cottage to die because her own children "would never expect me to be so unkind as to die before their eyes...