Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gangrène is that, although De Gaulle has succeeded in curbing army excesses in Algeria, French police methods at home in Metropolitan France are still a law unto themselves. In L'Express, Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Francois Mauriac wrote: "De Gaulle, Debré, Michelet are horrified by the idea of torture, as were the Socialists, Radicals and M.R.P.s of the Fourth Republic. But governments pass. The police remain, and governments all have this in common: they cannot do without the police and are scared of displeasing them...
...president of the Rustic Estate Owners, a tobacco farmer and rancher and onetime Castro supporter, now an outspoken critic (TIME, June 22). Then Castro summoned press, labor and government delegates from all over the hemisphere to Cuba this week to hear him explain what a good idea land reform...
...things off in the summer of 1928. Mimi tried hanging herself, finally instead married a hotelkeeper in Seefeld. Then in January 1931, there was a knock on her door. It was Rudolf Hess. "Hitler sent me," he said. "He wants to know if you are happy." Maria got the idea and soon ran off to Munich. There was a touching reconciliation on Hitler's sofa and one breathless Liebesnacht-night of love. Peis quoted Maria: "I let him do what he wanted. I was never so happy." Hitler told her: "Mimilein, I'm rich now. I can offer...
...idea sounds like a far-out gag from one of his own movies, but Comedy Director Frank (It Happened One Night) Capra insists that this time he is playing it straight. After years of research he is anxious to get started filming the life of St. Paul, and he has already picked his leading man: Frank Sinatra. "I'll admit that at first Sinatra seems a little offbeat for the role," says Capra. "When I first mentioned it to him, I think he was shocked. But there's no doubt about his acting ability, or his depth...
Among the Renaissance characteristics are balance and symmetry, which Romeo and Juliet has in superabundance. An early member of the canon and only the author's second attempt at tragedy, the play is at times literarily self-conscious and structurally too obvious in its symmetrical balance. Every idea has its complement: love vs. hate, day vs. night, patience vs. impetuosity, chastity vs. bawdry, and so on. Every character has its foil: Romeo and Mercutio, Juliet and Roasline, Benvolio and Tybalt, Friar Laurence and the Nurse. If it is not a supreme achievement, it is still a great play...