Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wording. Now Reuther & Co. set earnestly to work. Nothing would suit the band except the insertion of a sentence in the plank reading, "We pledge to carry out these [Supreme Court] decisions," and the addition of a paragraph from the 1952 platform calling for federal civil-rights legislation, all poison to the South. (Reuther later was willing to concede that the McCormack plank was "something I could live with.") The Reuther group spent most of the day getting 14 (out of 108) members of the platform committee to sign a minority report...
Mazurkiewicz murdered for money to finance his high living, usually by drawing his victims into shady black-market deals, the real source of much of his own income. In 1943, Mazurkiewicz failed in his first attempt, when poison did not work on a Polish underground officer. He profited by this first distressing experience, put so much cyanide in the vodka of a black-marketeer that the fellow gave up his ghost and $1.200 with heartening dispatch. Victim No. 2, carrying 160.000 zlotys, was shot and his body dumped in a river...
...bestsellers went on the Catholic Index of Forbidden Books: The Second Sex (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953) and The Mandarins (TIME, May 28), both by French Existentialist Simone de Beauvoir. Her works, said Osservatore Romano, " spread a deleterious atmosphere of existentialist philosophy ... a subtle poison . . . Madame de Beauvoir defends emancipation of women from moral laws...
...Poison in the Beer. Liveliest chapter is Editor Michalson's own attempt to answer the question: What is existentialism? The layman's suspicion that it is some kind of clandestine wedding between Nordic melancholy and Parisian pornography, he admits, comes close to truth. "For . . . there is in existentialism a shocking sensualism, an erotic realism, a tearful and throbbing meeting of skin against skin, which, so characteristically French, appreciates propinquity of heart and fingertip." At the same time existentialism contains "a sentiment of constantly living over cracking earth, or at the foot of live volcanos, or in a land...
...darkness. For existentialism, in spite of all its talk, is a philosophy of action; words by themselves do not count. "One who murmurs in his beer, 'I wish I were dead,' " writes Michalson, "would only be really existing if he were at that moment quaffing poison." Kierkegaard, says Yale's Niebuhr, was much like his hero Socrates, "whose wisdom consisted in the knowledge of his ignorance, whose imperative was 'know thyself,' whose philosophy of life was 'reduplicated in his living and his dying, who was a comic and tragic figure, who was the father...