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...Bigger, More Determined." Also in the aftermath of the Sunday school bombing, a county grand jury indicted two 16-year-old white boys, Michael Lee Farley and Larry Joe Sims, for first-degree murder in the death of a 13-year-old Negro, Virgil Ware. In the disorders that followed the church deaths, Virgil was shot as he rode on the handle bars of his brother's bicycle. The grand jury refused to indict Birmingham Policeman Jack Parker for the fatal shooting of another Negro teenager, Johnny Robinson, 16, who was part of a group that stoned white...
...fiance of Hardy's daughter, Wholsa) or by Pansy Pineherse (Hardy's old flame) and her clutch of reactionary flower-gardeners. The ladies decide to call in a one-man Senate investigating committee, Sea-bigot Colder, to drive the dancers out; this amiable demagogue tries in the process to indict Senator Hardy for not fulfilling a government fertilizer (wonderful stuff for a certain sort of joke) contract. At the same time Wholsa falls out with Marsh, and in with the Crimean Igor Beevor; Pansy's son Andy out with a love of medicine and in with the seductive ballerina Katerina...
...dramatically potent than speech. The deepest flaw is O'Neill's failure to understand the essence of the Greek tragedies from which he borrowed. The Greek hero was a man trying to be god and failing, the tragedy of overweening pride. O'Neill's heroes indict god for failing to be god, or even to be; they suffer the pathos of grievance at man's inscrutable lot. By superimposing the events of the Greeks on the attitudes of moderns, O'Neill gives playgoers the sometimes heartrending spectacle of a man undone by numbing catastrophes...
...published in the U.S., the book proves itself more than a kind of private school Peyton Place. Benedictus' obviously partisan aim is to indict the Eton system for destroying a poor boy named Scarfe because, as a plebeian farmer's son brought to the school in a "democratic" experiment, he cannot conform to it socially, and for corrupting a rich boy named Phillips by giving him no socially acceptable choice except conformity...
...real estate operator? The fact that Harvard did not take the lead when the battle began, the fact that Harvard was, in a sense, afraid to enter the fray because it might become a target for derision in the even that Cambridge supported the project--these facts serve to indict Harvard strongly for its lethargy...