Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rape, plunder and suicide became commonplace. Soldiers entered the Haus Dahlem, an orphanage, maternity hospital and foundling home, and repeatedly raped pregnant women and those who had recently given birth. All told, the number of rape victims in Berlin-ranging from women of 70 to little girls of ten-will never be known, although Ryan reports estimates from doctors that run from...
...resolution further stated that the "physical and psychological harm" to an unwanted child, to a poor family with too many children, "to a mother, pregnant too often, all demand this Bill...
Recognizing the spiritual anguish caused when people can neither live together in conjugal love nor get a divorce, some priests have been known to advise young couples, pressured to marry because the girl is pregnant, to contract a civil wedding. Later on, if they see that their life together is working out, they can get married in church...
...conventional approach to Chekhov emphasizes detachment and the fine etching of character. The proscenium arch is mandatory, the sets are deep, the action well separated from the audience. The long, pregnant pause is preferred to the passionate cry. This approach plays up the interaction of secondary "characters" for poignancy and comic effect, and plays down the potential melodrama of violent love, suicide and duels. Jonathan Black's staging of The Seagull at the Loeb last season was a fine production within this convention...
Eventually, he makes her pregnant and she dies from an attempted abortion: visiting her grave at night he is called to suicide by the spirit of Moritz who promises him happiness in cynically laughing from the hereafter at human beings. To counter Moritz, a masked man appears, representing. . .what? Life? Adventure? Complacency? There are suggestions of all three in the script, and one sensed a confusion in Babes handling of the scene. Moritz is supposed to appear carrying his head; he does, but the head on his shoulders has not been covered up, which makes nonsense of the masked...