Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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General Francisco Pizarro (Robert Shaw) was, the way Screenwriter Philip Yordan tells it, obsessed by his own bastardy. As in the case of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, the burden of his illegitimacy weighed so heavily that it drove him to deeds of improbable and even reckless heroism. In the...
This literary eruption, however, is relatively recent. "My childhood was more political than literary," says Lady Antonia. Her father was lecturing on politics and economics at Oxford, and her mother often joined him in active campaigning. "Books were considered the thing in our family even then, but everybody went off...
Finally, in 1965, she started three years of research on Mary, digging through libraries in England, France and Scotland and revisiting most of the sites of Mary's life. During the third year, pregnant with her sixth child, she sometimes toppled over when lifting heavy index files in libraries...
Some Lessons. Why, in a war in which some 3,800 soldiers on both sides die each week, had the killing of one civilian become such a cause célèbre? Partly because Chuyen's slaying exposed the tensions that exist among U.S. agencies carrying out spying...
>Resentment is succeeded in turn by bargaining-a campaign, often undetectable, to somehow stay execution of sentence. A difficult patient may abruptly turn cooperative; the reward he seeks for good behavior is an extension of life. The author cites the poignant case of an opera singer, her face consumed by...