Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Segrest was arrested, and District Attorney Tom Young described him as a "very quiet type of man" who had no record of Negro baiting. Young insisted that the murder was "not a civil rights homicide," pointed out that Younge was holding a golf club in his hand when shot. Tuskegee students noisily disagreed; groups as large as 1,500 marched through Tuskegee singing freedom songs and demanding the death penalty for Segrest. Civil rights leaders asked Lyndon Johnson to send federal marshals to protect Negro lives and rights, and Mayor Charles M. Keever, calling the situation "very dangerous," said that...
Agent 007 has come to pay his last respects to the shapely, black-veiled widow of a SPECTRE assassin. An oboe sighs mournfully. He goes to press her hand and bam! da-bam! bam!-a volley of brass suddenly screams bloody murder. Agent 007 knocks the widow head over high heels with a bone-jarring right cross to the jaw. Aha! Just as he thought: it was not the widow but the assassin himself. Accompanied by thumping kettledrums, 007 methodically works the villain over with karate punches and a well-placed kick, then strangles him to death. A clatter...
Both incidents were bizarre but not unmanageable. Kansas Investigator, Al Dewey, apprehended the murderers and a grateful public had them hanged; Establishment representative Dwight MacDonald exposed the status drop-in and a literate public saw him ridiculed. As in all senseless episodes, only epilogues were wanting: for the Clutter family murder, an explanation of such infrequent violence; for the New Yorker's reputation, unequivocal proof of current literary merit. The publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote's "non-fiction novel" on the Clutter affair, recently serialized in the New Yorker, triumphantly answers both needs...
Much more than the "verbatim" document it was first announced as, In Cold Blood is a new kind of saga, and a unique landmark in American historiography. Its impact and brilliance, the result of a six-year quest after every person and detail involved in the murder, mark the demise of Capote, the literary mannerist. He has abandoned the mellifluous language honed for his previous work, and discovered a new diction--based on listening to a staggering amount of mental transcription taken from the entire cast of a protracted drama--to handle the lives, minds, and language of those directly...
...central impact of the mass murder lies in a double mischance; first, that Hickock and Smith should ever have found one another, each being the perfect complement in a mutuality predicated on a "big score"; second, that the Clutter family should have been chosen as victims, so incongruous a happening that it made Holcomb, Kansas, feel "like being told there...