Word: murders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three juries at the Old Bailey-the first was dismissed when the judge fell ill, the second could not agree, the third found him not guilty. Finally, for the crime of illegally disposing of Setty's body, Hume pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to murder, and in 1950 was sentenced to twelve years in prison...
...scarcely fitted Verdi's bill ("I would have Lady Macbeth ugly and wicked ... her voice should be that of a devil"). For the most part, Soprano Rysanek seemed more like an ambitious Org Man's tender helpmate than a driven woman goading her weak husband to murder. But in the sleepwalking scene she rendered Verdi's compassionate music with memorable grace. As Macbeth, Baritone Leonard Warren walked through his part woodenly but sang as well as ever, while as Macduff, Tenor Carlo Bergonzi delivered one of the evening's real stunners...
...sentimental idealism, straight to the awful result: the young nihilists of the 1870s, who believed that terrorism was justified as a means to political reform. Camus read the book at 20 ("A soul-shaking experience"). Like Dostoevsky, Camus broods about the ailment of freedom without God, about political mass murder in the name of life and the future. Although he has been unable to accept Dostoevsky's remedy (return to God and the soil), he says: "The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx...
...Perhaps the play's chief quality is Camus' adroit emphasis of Nikolay Stavrogin (ably played by Pierre Vaneck), the book's most memorably monstrous character. An empty-souled aristocrat, Stavrogin longs to be a sort of Nietzschean superman. He instigates a band of young revolutionaries to murder, rapes his landlady's little daughter, finally commits suicide. In the hands of Camus, Stavrogin emerges as a modern man, a desperate seeker of God who does not know where to look. Says another character in The Possessed: "When he believes, he does not believe that he believes...
...spectator is thus left to conclude that, as far as the tasteless makers of this movie are concerned, the most significant achievement of the Hungarian revolution was the murder of an innocent Russian...