Word: mask
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facts of the case were grotesque. Marc-Antoine Calas. 29, hanged himself in Toulouse on the night of Oct. 13, 1761. His father Jean attempted to mask the death as an accident to spare his family the disgrace of a suicide. Calas was then arrested, along with his wife and a younger son, and charged with the murder of Marc-Antoine. The authorities, well aware that no murder had been committed, knew what they were doing. The Calas family was openly Huguenot. The father had killed his son to prevent his conversion to Catholicism, the state claimed, citing a questionable...
...surround ing great vessels, such children are so frail that drastic surgery can kill them. The sooner they can have a corrective operation, the better. Dr. Boerema reasoned that if he could operate under double or triple atmospheric pressure and make the youngsters breathe pure oxygen through a mask, their red cells would pick up more oxygen and keep their fragile systems working better so that surgery would be safer...
...still not touch, to its considerable loss. His The Blacks, now well over the 700 mark in performances, is probably the most satisfying work of art ever produced on the color question, an unsentimental depth probe of a labyrinth of hate-guilt feelings, in which blacks and whites literally mask but cannot hide their attitudes toward each other and themselves...
...beautiful girl looking in a mirror at a new fur wrap. She rules more by sex appeal than by fiat. "Can we try it this way, darling," she will murmur, "or would you hate me for that, sweetheart?" Or, as she adjusts the plastic welder's mask designed to protect her from flying chips and plaster: "Darling, could you hold the gun this way and shoot down the alley? Try it, sweetheart, and see if it works." The actors affectionately call her "Mother...
...Bertolt Brecht. First produced in 1926, and excitingly performed in this Eric Bentley production, Man uncannily foreshadows the process of brainwashing, the loss of identity, and the kind of society where every man wears a mask to hide the face he hasn...