Word: eventer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a week in which Fanfani could form no new government, and no one else of stature seemed prepared to form a government either, with Fanfani likely to snipe, a surprising event occurred. Professing himself disillusioned and "disgusted with politics," Fanfani, in a note pounded out on his own typewriter, abruptly resigned as party secretary "in order to eliminate any obstacles to the indispensable work of unity." And when dismayed leaders of the Christian Democratic machine urged him to reconsider, proud Amintore Fanfani bitterly replied: "Even if I were once again named Premier, I would not accept...
When at year's end the Batista regime suddenly collapsed, few were prepared for the event. The A.P. in Havana moved a Dec. 31 dispatch-based on but not credited to a Batista bulletin-to the effect that Castro's rebels were on the run. While this story was rolling off U.S. presses, Batista fled Cuba...
Although Freud developed the hotly debated Oedipus complex from his feelings toward his mother, Fromm believes that he concealed their intensity even from himself. And while discovery of the "wish to remain attached to Mother" was a notable event, Freud destroyed its value by restricting it to instinctual desires. In analytic terms: "His own attachment to Mother was the basis of his discovery, and his resistance to seeing his attachment was the basis for the limitation and distortion of this very discovery...
...fluidly mounted flashbacks, four separate versions of the event are re-enacted. Up to a point the facts jibe. A bandit (Rod Steiger) has stalked a passing samurai (Noel Willman) and his wife (Claire Bloom) through a bamboo glade, decoyed the husband with promises of buried loot, trussed him up, and raped his wife before his eyes. The samurai is later found dead. According to the bandit, the wife baited him into killing her husband to gain her. The wife swears she killed him to spare him dishonor. Through a medium, the dead samurai claims that he heartbrokenly committed suicide...
Crimson shot putters Henry Abbot, Steve Cohen, and Jim Doty produced a sweep in their event, but Wes Matson of Dartmouth took first over the varsity's Doty and Dune Johnson in the weight throw. Kelvin Kean won the high jump easily, clearing 6 ft., 2 in. but narrowly missing three tries for a new University record...