Word: hangman
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...inspired student dart boards on which his photograph is the bull's-eye. Arons' scathing answer to his student critics is that "they create certain myths to rationalize their own inadequacies." He seems proud of some mementos from his students in his cluttered office: a dead lizard, a hangman's noose...
...played by Movie Newcomer William Dix), an incorrigible ten-year-old who has been sent away for therapy after drowning his little sister in the bath. Though Joey claims he didn't do it, he is the kind of brat whose idea of fun is to practice tying hangman's knots. The lad returns home, alas, with one of his psychoses analyzed as "an inborn antipathy toward middle-aged females." Soon poor beleaguered Nanny has her hands full with the boy's bad manners and withering accusations-and worse. A doll lying face down in the bath...
Died. David losifovich Zaslavsky, 85, Pravda's most poisonous penman since 1928, who called Churchill "a broken lance bearer," Truman "a cold-war Napoleon," Hammarskjold "a hangman and murderer," but saved his strongest venom for Boris Pasternak, sneering that he was "an extraneous smudge" and leading the chorus that forced the author of Doctor Zhivago to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize; in Moscow...
...COVENANT WITH DEATH, by Stephen Becker. A flavorful tale of a Mexican border state in the '20s, and the legal issue of whether a man, about to hang for a murder he did not commit, should be punished for killing the hangman...
...pains," or a Mexican cousin he "would have ravished, in Fielding's glorious words," only to be prevented by her "timely compliance." His confusion leads him to doubt his capacity to love at all. But his wrestlings with his fateful judgment on the innocent man who murdered the hangman lead him to self-discovery and belated decisiveness. He emerges no longer just his father's son, no longer the boy jurist his mother "called Judge, when she felt I had done something egregiously stupid, which was, come to think of it, often...