Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. Whatever it is called-and its author calls it a "nonfiction novel"-this meticulous reconstruction of a multiple murder in Kansas elevates journalism...
Naked Siege. The violence reached a peak in 1961, when Freedomite leaders raised community tempers to boiling point by blaming the Canadian government for the murder of Peter Lordly-an event that took place back in 1924. Bombs rocked every lonely mountain town from Nelson (pop. 35,000) to New Denver (pop. 564), and finally the Royal Canadian Mounted Police cracked down. A special Mountie D-squad (for Doukhobor) swarmed through the Kootenays, setting up roadblocks, searching Freedomite homes and cars for bomb components, finally arresting some 120 hard-core Freedomite terrorists. The prisoners were given terms...
...perjury charge stemmed from one of his libel trials, and Wirges had little doubt that he would be convicted. The members of the jury, which included an illiterate and a man whose son is soon to stand trial for murder in the same court, were all well-known to the sheriff. Even before the verdict, Wirges' friends, including the defeated Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Winthrop Rockefeller, were busily getting ready to finance an appeal...
...collection has not always had so tranquil a home. In 1959 l'affaire Lacaze broke, filling headlines for weeks with accusations between Domenica and her adopted son Paulo, who said that her brother, Jean Lacaze, president of the Walter mines, tried to murder him to grab his inheritance. In 1961 the case was dismissed on grounds of insufficient evidence. Even last week Domenica preferred obscurity, not attending the exhibition's formal opening. Said she: "These paintings were made by artists whom Paul Guillaume chose because he believed in their genius. They belong first of all to those...
...primarily to the task of impersonating a Negro. In his accomplished mimicry, there is often too much mammy singer, too little inner man. This lithe warrior defies tepid theatrical conventions, only to emerge as a modern stereotype, quick to violence and so infatuated with himself that his cue for murder seems to be wounded animal pride, not unhinging grief. He has size without tragic stature, brute strength and magnetism without "a constant, loving, noble nature." His ultimate downfall shrinks almost to the level of a squalid domestic intrigue...