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Synge's plot saves its surprises for the end. But what lingers behind is the recollection of all that brave, gorgeous language and one fine scene when Christy and Pegeen declare their love against a hillock of dune grass, with the dappling sunlight going dim and bright all the while behind the hurrying October clouds...
...respond to, something with personal as well as sociological value; and the play's own self-created mood is shattered when at the end the girl bursts not into a blind, hurt personal rage but into an ideological harangue. It is as harmfully incongruousas if a small country hillock suddenly erupted with lava; and such lack of judgment suggests that much of Wesker's literalness derives from inherent lack...
Astronomer Edward Israel, fresh out of the University of Michigan, babbled of home and mother's cooking, then collapsed. The first twelve men to die were dragged to a barren hillock and covered with gravel. After that, the weakened survivors could do no more than push the emaciated corpses into a tidal crack...
...guide and safe-conduct passes, Moranino sent Strasserra and four other non-Communist partisan leaders off into the mountains for Switzerland. At the trial, the ex-partisan guide admitted that on Moranino's orders, he led the five men along an Alpine road to a brush-covered hillock, where six Moranino men waited. Spotting them, Strasserra cried: "We're friends. We are going to Switzerland." He was still waving his safe-conduct pass and talking when bullets cut him short. Destroying the evidence, the Reds buried their victims hastily beside the road, took their money and papers back...
...Enfant, the French-born engineer who designed the city of Washington, also served as a peacetime major in the Army engineers; Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, sometime lieutenant-colonel in the 20th Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War; General Jonathan Wainwright of Corregidor. On a brooding hillock General John J. Pershing lies in lonely aloofness. Another small knoll is occupied by the grave of Lieut. General Arthur MacArthur; near by, a plot is reserved for his son. Humbler graves reflect the grimness of war and the greatness of American history: "James Parks, born a slave," or, simply, "Unknown...