Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Damon Runyon died of cancer in 1946, after having contributed some 90 million words to the newspaper record of his time. Much of this prodigious output appeared in Hearst's old New York American, where Runyon in scribed such transitory events as prize fights, ball games, murder trials and wars. He may well have been the most-read U.S. journalist of his day, says Biographer Edwin P. Hoyt in A Gentle man of Broadway (Little, Brown & Co.; $6.95); but Hoyt argues convincingly that Reporter Runyon was also the most misread...
...easy tricks of melodrama. Their unsentimental aim is to take a marriage apart and nail up the bleeding pieces for honest scrutiny. Often as not, they succeed, finding lethal words and crisp images to express the timeless battle that Author Mortimer describes as "men and women who murder each other with all the weapons of devotion...
...Carre Murder of Quality...
...depressed sophomore, I was preoccupied with its central argument: what happens when a man accepts the meaninglessness of life and doggedly follows the logic of that position to its bitter conclusion? Pure logic dictates that if life is meaningless, so is death, and therefore Caligula's deliberately capricious murder of his friends and subjects is, however morbidly, rational. Yet Camus always argues that man must make a commitment to life in the face of the logic of meaninglessness...
...prosecution next thought of second-degree murder, but that requires proof of intent to kill an individual. Seeing no other choice, the prosecution finally allowed Weissman to plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter on the theory that he would still get a rap of up to 15 years. But the D.A. guessed wrong. Accepting Weissman's plea, State Supreme Court Justice Frederick Backer mulled over a psychiatric report and gave Mike Schaffer's killer 3½ to seven years...