Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Temple pulled his sword from its seabbard, but instead of attacking Oswald, he stabbed himself in the leg, cutting an artery and causing blood to spurt onto the Brattle stage...
...Oswald replied, "Help, ho, murder, murder," but it wasn't even suicide. Temple finished the performance after a quick patch from a doctor in the audience and then went to the hospital for six stitches...
...When Sir Oswald Mosley, British Fascist leader, arrived in Rome last week, the Communist newspaper L'Unita printed his photograph upside down. It was no mistake, and with a little helpful prodding from L'Unita, most readers got the point. In 1945, after Italian Partisans executed Benito Mussolini and his mistress, they hanged the pair upside down in Milan...
...Standard's charges were true-up to a point. Strachey, after joining Sir Oswald Mosley (1931), had broken with him by 1935 and made the small but conspicuous shift to Communism. He says he never became a party member, but he was certainly one of the most influential spokesmen for Stalinism in the English-speaking world of the Swirling Thirties...
...this tumultuous moment in its proper largeness, Professor Hughes has called to his aid those seemingly incompatible philosopher-historians, Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee. For intuitive insight into the mood of our time he has consulted the novelists: Proust, Mann, Joyce, Kafka, Sartro, and Camus. This seems to be the century of feeling rather than reason, and the writers were better able to feel the tenor of their time than the professional philosophers have been able to intellectualize it. The novelists were intensely subjective, relativistic, and often, like Kafka, gave a sense of the little man being enmeshed in incomprehensible...