Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World War II, Castello Branco is a lover of good music, reads avidly in four languages, has lived in both France and the U.S., and is reported to have a deep social conscience about the problems that dog Brazil. Much of his career was spent in the poverty-stricken, drought-devastated northeast. He was not one of the first plotters of the revolt, and thought long and hard before lending his weight to it. "We have toppled a government of the extreme left," Castello Branco said after his election. "We will not form a government of the extreme right...
...Cambridge to see the German film version of Goethe's Faust shown at the Loeb Theatre; for he had waged an ardent campaign to stimulate a fully staged production of this classic in Harvard's new playhouse. It is also fitting that his editorial appearing the day he was stricken dealt with Aeschylus' Oresteia; for it was occasioned by the forthcoming Adams House production, and concerned the work he loved most in the world...
...where he wins a huge following and prepares his first book, inspired by the simple dictum that "together, you and God can do anything." In the controversy arising from Positive Thinking, Peale begins to doubt, but dramatically resolves his doubts when he is called to the bedside of another stricken child...
...wound up on the cutting-room floor. R.T.F.'s producers, who scissored it out of a prepared news program, explained: "The presidential campaign is not yet open." The episodes underscored an issue that is producing a crescendo of static in non-Gaullist ranks, and even among some conscience-stricken Gaullists them selves-De Gaulle's blithe appropriation of France's radio and TV grid for his own political uses. When De Gaulle speaks, his words are broadcast repeatedly; but Defferre, since announcing his candidacy in December, has become the Invisible Man on the French TV screen...
...Indo-China war a decade ago, when it sometimes took weeks for news of a soldier's death in the jungles to reach Paris, brides often discovered that they had been married by proxy to men already killed. Was such a woman legally a bereaved widow or sorrow-stricken mistress? The Malpasset Dam disaster stirred public demand for a legal solution...