Word: inquests
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...deaths, and Dr. Lister knew just what to do. On the death certificate, on the line for "cause of death," he wrote: "Carcinoma (cancer) of bronchus due to excessive smoking." This was unheard of. The registrar harrumphed, refused to accept the certificate. That meant there had to be an inquest-before Coroner R. Ian Milne, a layman who happens to be an unreformed smoker, Cried Milne: "I would take issue with any doctor who used such a term as 'excessive' in a death certificate. [That] is to judge the habits of one's fellow men. That must...
...here is Greek tragedy as it should be done, like neither a Shakespearian character study and display of verbal pyrotechnics, nor a contemporary inquest into the septic souls of one's nerve-wracked next-door neighbors. To meet with Oedipus Rex on its own grounds, you approach it like neither Hamlet nor Death of a Salesman, but rather as if it were a Solemn High Mass. It reminds us that the "play" was originally a religious ritual, after all, even if this is a spirit our own age has successfully recaptured on the stage only in Eliot's Murder...
...noon). A double-gaited educational hoss that runs like a'critter out of the Encyclopaedia Britannica by Confidential. The subject is Edgar Allan Poe-not his poetry and prose, but his alcoholism and drug addiction. Professor-Author (The Histrionic Mr. Poe) N. Bryllion Fagin conducts the inquest...
...Lana Turner, the Sweater Girl whose feckless pursuit of happiness became men's-room talk from Sunset Boulevard to Fleet Street, and for her shaken, 14-year-old daughter Cheryl, who stabbed Lana's paramour, Johnny Stompanato (TIME. April 14). Last week a coroner's inquest declared Cheryl's act justifiable homicide, but this decision hardly lessened the sociological impact of a news story that began 22 years...
...Hidden River (adapted from Storm Jameson's novel by Ruth and Augustus Goetz) is a split-level kind of play. Laid in France in 1950, it is partly a mystery piece over who informed on a young Resistance fighter in World War II, partly a moral inquest into types of French behavior under the Nazis. The dead man's vengeance-crying mother will not rest till she has found his betrayer; simultaneously, the playwrights set up a kind of hearing-not just for outright heroes and traitors, but for one Frenchman with a certain tolerance of Germans during...