Word: kill
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Edmunds apparently tries to make a fair assessment of local literary life. But to compare i.e., The Cambridge Review to a student who flunked out in boredom is to forget the fact that, faced with the possibility of passing it on to incompetents, i.e.'s editors decided to kill it, believing an honorable death preferable to the senility they saw on The Advocate. And to say that The Editor is on probation and that Audience is a junior Phi Beta Kappa is to play with words. Edmunds says that because Identity is published by an offset process, the success...
Seven months ago, in the heady days after they had killed King Feisal and seized power in Baghdad, Major General Karim Kassem and Colonel Abdul Salam Mohammed Aref were "brothers in revolt" who slept on the floor of the same office in the Defense Ministry Building. Last week after a sort of show trial before a military court, Colonel Aref was sentenced to death for trying to kill his chief, Premier Kassem...
...proof that he plotted against the state and, since Kassem himself refused to testify, there was also nothing but hearsay to contradict Aref's claim that when he drew a pistol in Kassem's presence last October he had only done so in a hysterical attempt to kill himself. Several leaders, including Brigadier Naji Talib, a top figure in the shadowy "free officers' group" that plotted the July revolt, testified in Aref's behalf...
...rich wayfarer stays the night at the cottage of poor folk somewhere in rural Europe. The greedy farmer and his wife kill their guest, rob him-and find papers identifying him as their long-lost...
...other tales, Author Bradbury cultivates what he calls the sense of "infinite interfusion." A boy is "taken over" by disease germs and himself becomes a bad seed whose touch can kill a pet canary. Exploring his musty attic, a man dons an Edwardian striped blazer and boater, is promptly whisked backwards through time to the lazy summer afternoons of his youth. A 12th century armored knight tilts tragically with a 20th century locomotive that he takes for a dragon. The Shore Line at Sunset is a simple parable on the vagrant power of beauty, but its mermaid heroine is evoked...