Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alan Bates plays Bok-a handyman, a fixer of broken things. His home is the shtetl, a rural Jewish village in 1911 Russia. It is a time of pogroms and malignant rumors of Jews who murder Christians as part of their religious rites. Bok, possessed of a barren, faithless wife (Carol White), abandons his emotions, his conscience and his home. His destination is the ancient Russian Orthodox city of Kiev, where he promptly sends himself to hell by passing as a gentile. In scenes that seem to have emerged from the mainstream of Russian literature, Lebedev (Hugh Griffith), a rabid...
...been an ugly year for news. The mire in Vietnam looked deadlier than ever until March. The new year got off to a bad start--the Pueblo was seized. Early summer was shattered by the murder of Dr. King and the widespread riots that ensued. Then Bobby Kennedy was shot...
...report also places the start of the confrontation considerably earlier than the convention week-there had been riots in Chicago's black ghettos in 1966 and again in April 1968, after the murder of Martin Luther King. Mayor Daley's own riot-study committee (Daniel Walker was No. 2 man) cited the restraint practiced by the police as a major factor in keeping the April riots from becoming even "more violent and widespread." But after April 1968, Daley criticized his police for their restraint and urged them to shoot to kill arsonists and maim looters. Says the report...
...Murder in the Cathedral--T.S. Eliot. At the HUB THEATRE CENTER, 131 Cambridge...
...atmosphere of hysterical malediction gradually infests the room. At the crucial moment, the young man loses his chance for infamous glory as a hundred assassins gun down the President in a communal murder. Despite its grisly theme, the play is acridly funny in its satire of a society that, in the playwright's view, is teetering toward terror, anarchy and nihilism...