Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today, the tale of Tristan's illicit love affair with Isolde, bride of his uncle, King Marke, and of the lovers deaths-Tristan from a dueling wound and Isolde from grief-no longer packs the emotional wallop it had for Wagner's generation. Indifferently played, the familiar music sometimes has an almost soporific effect. But at the Bayreuth Festival last week, audiences responded to a stunning new Tristan und Isolde that gave Wagner's paean to love some of the shock value it must have had when its composer trembled for his hearers' sanity...
There is a huge smuggling trade in illicit (and mainly industrial) diamonds from the big South Kasai fields. Millions of dollars are lost by the government in this way alone: of some 17 million carats produced in South Kasai during the past year, only about 124,000 carats came onto the market legally...
...Illicit trade in luxury goods used to be one of the nation's biggest businesses, but in the year since Park took power, hundreds of lesser offenders were sentenced to road gangs, and ten ringleaders went on trial for their lives. Last week, in Seoul's Sodaemun prison, the death sentence against a smuggler was carried out for the first time: the hangman's noose was lowered over South Korea's most wanted criminal, surly, burly Han Pil Kook...
While Soviet authorities maintain that crime is a bourgeois phenomenon that will wither away under Communism, they have found capital punishment no easier to abolish than the illicit pursuit of capital. The death penalty was dropped in 1947 (not counting secret executions in the cellar of Lubianka Prison, of course), but during the '50s. capital punishment was gradually restored-for murder, treason, espionage and sabotage. Last year, to cope with a rash of get-rich-quick racketeering, the courts were permitted to decree death for counterfeiters, big-time embezzlers of public property and currency speculators. Fortnight ago, Moscow broadened...
...recognize immediately the rules that everybody in Vienna understands. You know, for example, that there are three sorts of people: The authorities--the police and the military--who tramp about in heavy boots to make sudden arrests; the racketeers, who murder each other and keep the populace content with illicit tires and cigarettes; the mass of inhabitants, who prefer not to meddle with the dangerous affairs of bureaucracy or black markets. All of them, of course, are very well accustomed to evil...