Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the final decision on an abortion should be an individual rather than a legal one is to assume that abortion is not murder-I take it for granted that TIME still feels that murder should be a "legal decision." And I can't help but ask those who favor abortions in cases where the child is expected to be healthy and the mother is expected to deliver without danger: "Were you not worth saving when you were yet unborn...
...late. A Senate commission was investigating reports that the police had been unnecessarily brutal during a June demonstration during which one student was shot dead. When the commission declared last month that the police and the city administration had in effect attempted to conceal a murder, Albertz was lost...
What is Stanley's crime? Are Goldberg and McCann agents of a murder ring, symbols of organized society, or instruments of fate? What torture do the pair inflict on Stanley? Rarely has Pinter left more to the playgoer's imagination. The American cast keeps its English accents tidy but not its performances, and Director Alan Schneider lets the first act drowse. Basically, the play lacks the athletic snap and resonance of The Caretaker's dialogue and the musky animal magnetism of The Homecoming family. But whether or not he baffles playgoers, Harold Pinter exerts a modish appeal...
...develops from isolated experiences he has under the yoke of different masters. But as the book proceeds, the suppressed rage intensifies, Nat's recitations of Old Testament wrath increase, and the action quickens. Near the end, he recalls the insurrection vividly and hotly. Feelings reach a peak with his murder of Margaret Whitehead, who is Nat's suppressed love and his sole victim. He has been unable to kill at any other point in the insurrection, and after her death there is even a decline in the momentum of the uprising and a sag in the tension. It is almost...
...sharp contrast which Styron draws between Nat and his friend Hark contrasts the puritanical nature of one with the worldly humor of the other. In Styron's view, Nat was largely motivated by sexual frustration, while Hark had no such similar hang-ups. It was Hark, too, who could murder ruthlessly. Nat maintanied a strange distance from the rebels' blood-spilling...