Word: fatality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cogent words of admonition. "Dear compatriots," he said, "continuity of the Republic and the permanence of France . . . require civic concord, so my first wish is that we should reform at the earliest moment our political and social habits as well as certain institutions, that we should silence fatal passions and hatreds-those hatreds which I have sometimes had to suffer in the silence imposed by my high position, those hatreds which rend the country at the very hour when we should all be joining hands to achieve our recovery and to show our friends as well as our adversaries...
...quarrel in Brutus' camp, and the suicides of the "honorable men." Even the early scenes, however, are far from static because of the brilliance of James Mason's performance as Brutus and John Gielgud's as Cassius. Mason's portrayal of the incomparably noble man, whose decisions invariably prove fatal, has a grandeur which over-shadows the other principals. But the character has a distinct headstart, for alone of Julius Caesar's major roles, Brutus is free of the contradictions often unresolved in the other characters. Gielgud's Cassius, the perfect embodiment of "the lean and hungry look...
Died. Jean-Joseph Renaud, 80, French fencing champion at the turn of the century, who refereed more than 100 clandestine (but rarely fatal) duels, spent his spare time turning out 63 popular novels, two full-length plays; in Paris...
...Judiciary makes a fatal mistake when it tries to turn pure morality into constitutional law," Howe added. The solution, he felt, would be for the Court to enforce to the letter the "separate but equal" doctrine...
...took an even dimmer one of the fledgling poet, and said no to a marriage. Fuming with hurt pride, Burns delivered a round, ranting curse on Mrs. Armour to a friend: "May all the Furies . . . await the old harridan . . . May Hell string the arm of Death to throw the fatal dart, and . . . rouse the infernal flames to welcome her approach!" Then he added cautiously: "For Heaven's sake, burn this letter," as if suspecting that within two years she would be his mother...