Word: murders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your critical comment on T. S. Eliot and Murder in the Cathedral contains a number of absurdities, which I will point out seriatim. Imprimis, you call him dandiacal in appearance is so symbolically presented (in accordance with T. S. Eliot's own wishes) by the English players is to throw the emphasis on the spiritual struggle. You state that Becket is not inwardly lacerated, whereas the whole play is about his inward laceration; it is because the play is so introspective that it is hard to follow. As for your "Eliot gets in a brutal and final punch...
...been a friendly observer of Communism, was declaring last week in The Nation: "The Kremlin is undermining everything good the Revolution sought to accomplish. . . . Madness has taken charge of the Soviets. . . . Great states fall . . . when the masses awake to the fact that justice no longer reigns among them, that murder stalks in the very halls of justice...
Died. Clarence Seward Darrow, 80, criminal lawyer, defender of underdogs, winner of lost causes; of heart disease; in Chicago. Agnostic, bitter opponent of capital punishment ("organized, legalized murder"), Darrow never prosecuted a case, never had a client executed. His great defenses: 1) Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, arrested (1894) on a charge of conspiracy in organizing an American Railway Union strike-acquitted; 2) William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood and colleagues, accused of plotting assassination (1905) of Idaho's Governor Steunenburg - acquitted; 3) Brothers John J. and James B. McNamara, charged (1911) with dynamiting the Los Angeles Times Building- imprisoned...
...much violence and as much hard drinking as his earlier books. It has a typical O'Hara hero-a 35-year-old Hollywood writer who sports $35 shoes, $7.50 socks, a $2,200 automobile, and who is in love with a brisk little bookstore clerk. It has its murder, its two ambiguous strangers, its undercurrent of tension accompanying commonplace scenes like luncheons and parties. But all consequential happenings seem to take place off stage. Readers are told a good deal about the intoxications of Jim Malloy and Peggy Henderson, but not so much about their hangovers; a good deal...
Stalin, it came out last week, was escorted by Yagoda from Moscow to Leningrad to investigate Kirov's murder, now confessed to have been the work of Escort Yagoda & accomplices whose confessed main objective was to kill Stalin. Yagoda always personally commanded in the Red Square the Secret Police guards of Stalin and other Soviet leaders when reviewing parades atop the Tomb of Lenin. Thus Yagoda for years was the one man in Russia who could certainly have killed Stalin. Also Yagoda, as head of the secret police, was better able than any other Russian to frame someone else...