Word: hating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senators Jenner, Velde, and McCarthy, calling the last "our modern grand inquisitor," a "dangerous and ruthless demagogue" who "has used the technique of insinuation against innocent people and debauched the Senate's power of investigation by introducing authorization practices that are skin to the communism which he professes to hate...
...translated into English, Henri Calet gets a fresh camera angle on the old shot. His hero, a Parisian named Thomas Schumacher, is 40, greying and deadly tired of leading the fashionable double life. He is still rather fond of the wife he has just divorced, and has come to hate the mistress who is the mother of his infant son Paul. What with shuttling regularly between the two, tired Tom begins to feel that the bus is his only real home...
...print politics, but to print about politics." To charges that he has been lenient toward Germany's neo-Nazis, Springer answers: "The best policy toward those people is not to talk or write about them at all." To those worried about his power, Springer says: "I hate the word 'power.' I once fired an editor who called attention to the 'power' I now had in my hands." Nevertheless, he intends to increase his power by buying two other papers, and "then no more...
...startled his Suspense listeners by producing, directing and acting in his own version of a two-part adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello. At first he planned to do a fast rewrite of Shakespeare, but a friend asked: "Why paraphrase? Have you got a better line than 'I hate the Moor'?" In stead, Elliott contented himself with cutting Othello from 146 minutes to 46. Instead of the usual thrill music, he used themes from Verdi operas as bridges between the action. As Othello, Elliott effectively portrayed the Moor's high-minded simplicity. Cathy played Desdemona as smoothly...
...matter of military objectives. So, naturally, were the lives of enemies. Rommel tells in his own words of coming upon a "particularly irate" French lieutenant colonel whose car was "jammed in the press" of surrendering French in 1940: "I asked him for his rank and appointment. His eyes glowed hate and impotent fury ... I decided, on second thought, to take him along . . . But he curtly refused to come with us, so, after summoning him three times to get in, there was nothing for it but to shoot him." Four years later, when Hitler bade Rommel poison himself, there was nothing...