Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Phoenix, despite a plea of insanity, Accused Mass Murderer Robert Benjamin Smith, 19, was found guilty and now faces the gas chamber. Smith is the high school student who shot to death four women and a child in a Mesa, Ariz., beauty parlor, after getting them to lie down, heads to the center, like spokes of a wheel (TIME, Nov. 18). When police arrived only moments after the killings, Smith announced laconically: "I wanted to get known, just wanted to get myself a name." Defense psychiatrists testified that Smith could not have known right from wrong. "For him," said...
...find, to their consternation, that the boy could talk as well as he could write. He left behind him some badly bloodied academic reputations. Taking the cue from Brother, Sister Patricia wrote a magazine article criticizing Vassar for being too leftist; another sister, Aloise, uncovered some "Communists" on the Smith campus and urged the alumnae to stop contributing to the college until the matter was investigated. Unlike the Yalies, however, the Smithies could not have cared less...
...maneuver." And despite his devotion to conservatism, Buckley has learned to maneuver. He has urged his fellow Roman Catholics to moderate their hostility toward birth control and abortion, thereby alienating Brother-in-Law Bozell, who publishes the conservative Catholic magazine Triumph. Believing in the innocence of Edgar Smith, a convicted rapist now in the death house in Trenton, Buckley has done his level best to win him a retrial. In recent columns, he has come out in favor of L.BJ.'s rent-supplement program, compulsory arbitration of major labor disputes, and "massive" aid to the ghettos-scarcely traditional conservative...
...scarcely better than hell, his characters are touched by a vagrant grace. The Comedians, for which he wrote a script based on his novel, is Greeneland all over again, this time in Haiti. Off a ship and into the damned, doomed country walk three anonyms: Brown, Jones and Smith...
Beneath their drab masques are three highly colored personae. Smith (Paul Ford) is a potato-faced professional vegetarian from the Midwest who plans to convert the natives to a diet of nut-burgers and Yeastrol. Jones (Alec Guinness) is a breezy, sleazy gun smuggler, all winks and leers, forever dreaming of deals. Brown (Richard Burton), in Haiti to reclaim his late mother's hotel, is a lapsed Catholic, a cynic, a middle-aged burned-out case. He is also a ready target for temptation, as substantially embodied in a Latin American ambassador's wife (Elizabeth Taylor). She waits...