Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haught, 27 years a miner and brother-in-law of one of the missing men, complained that the mine was "filled with gas" and "something was bound to happen." Tony Boyle, president of the United Mine Workers lo cal, demurred. "This happens to be one of the better companies as far as safety is concerned," he said. "I share the grief. But as long as we mine coal, there is always this inherent danger of explosion." For relatives of the missing miners, huddled in their parked pickup trucks or on folding chairs in the grimy company store, that was scant...
...Testament holds that love of money is the root of all evil, but Mark Twain reversed that adage into "lack of money is the root of all evil." Socrates said: "Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money." Gertrude Stein remarked: "As a cousin of mine once said about money, money is always there but the pockets change...
...casting failure persists all down the line. In the film the part of Nikos, the young scholar who takes Zorba with him to Crete to operate an abandoned lignite mine, was played by Alan Bates with a pale, perplexed intellectuality that was a perfect foil to Quinn's animal magnetism. In this musical's stunted version of the part, John Cunningham acts like a graduate-school grind...
...more than a celebration of unfettered instinct, Zorba's heightened sense of existence comes from his sec-ond-to-second awareness of death. That is why the widow is murdered by the puritanical villagers, and why the apparatus that operates the lignite mine crashes in total disaster. Such is, says Kazantzakis, the destiny of man and all his works. This is the Greek tragic sense of life, and from it springs Zorba's credo: to live in, for and by each moment as if it were the first and the last. With this musical, one soon wishes each...
...prevent a defendant from "being dragged, kicking and screaming, to the witness stand." But Friendly does not see how the Supreme Court can interpret it as meaning the state cannot compel a person to produce documents and records relevant to his case. "It takes a heart more hemophilic than mine," says he, "to find cruelty" in a subpoena to require racketeers to produce their books. Yet the Supreme Court has barred just such an act under the self-incrimination clause...