Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play up the farcical opportunities and invent a lot of by-play. Still, I only have two hours and a half. Well, I'll do a little pruning here and there in the text; and I guess I'll just have to omit the whole taunting of Malvolio in prison, though I realize it's the climax of the entire anti-Malvolio plotting. This does mean I'm upsetting Shakespeare's delicately balanced construction; but that will have to yield just this once to allow for my additions, because, after all, I've got to have a really festive show...
...logical next step in Premier Karim Kassem's squeeze on the Communists was to deprive them of the guns with which they might one day shoot their way to power. This he tried to do last week, ordering a three-year prison sentence and $450 fine for anyone caught with firearms in his possession. Doubtless many an illegal pistol remained hidden under mattresses, but at least Communist mobs would henceforth be discouraged from roaming the streets waving their weapons in open intimidation...
...Great Impostor, by Robert Crichton. The incredible biography of multi-phrenic Fred Demara Jr., who has been a Navy surgeon, teacher, prison warden, and a member of half a dozen religious orders...
Died. Bela Kovacs, 53, stubborn 20th century Hungary freedom fighter who battled the Nazis, then the Communists, always against hopeless odds, became the embodiment of democratic hope in Hungary; of internal complications resulting from nine years in a Russian prison; in Pecs, Hungary. A leader of Hungary's underground in World War II, stocky, peasant-reared Kovacs emerged as a dominant figure in the postwar period, led a coalition of peasants and the urban middle class (Smallholders Party) to a smashing victory over the Communists in the 1945 free elections. When the Red army moved into Hungary, it threw...
...Impostor, by Robert Crichton. The astonishing biography of a rascally and unbalanced genius named Fred Demara Jr., who successfully changed identities with the ease of a child changing daydreams. At various times he appeared (among dozens of other types) as a Canadian navy surgeon, a teacher among Eskimos, a prison warden, and as a member of half a dozen different religious orders...