Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret police, whose "interrogation'' methods range from the use of poisonous snakes to an ingenious electric cage that shocks the prisoner when he tries to straighten up or sit down. According to a United Nations survey, 80,000 of Albania's 1,700,000 citizens were thrown into concentration camps between 1945 and 1956, and 16,000 died there. Last spring, a dozen Albanian army and navy officers were tried, in an improvised courtroom in Tirana's Partisan Cinema, as pro-Soviet conspirators. Found guilty, they were marched right off to an adjacent vacant...
...cyclist was thrown from his bicycle, but picked himself up and apparently rode away before he could be identified...
John Wolfson has constructed himself a fantasy, or more precisely, a cosmology, a huge private joke of a universe which he has thrown rather diffidently onto the Loeb experimental stage and asked an audience to enjoy. That is what strikes one first about Dr. Plantagenet, the sheer nerve of the play. Shaw's Back to Methuselah seems by contrast extraordinarily limited in scope...
...must be destroyed that seduce man away from himself. Hope of any salvation from some external event is the greatest of these illusions; only out of an absolute nihilism can spring the immediate values and joys of life. When man has given up his hopes, he is at last thrown back upon himself, upon the source from which all values must flow...
...scheme of things he's not worth the brine to pickle a herring. He's just a piece of live manure and he knows it. When he looks around after his drink and smiles at us, the world seems to be falling to pieces. It's a smile thrown across an abyss. The whole stinking civilization lies like quagmire at the bottom of the pit, and over it, like a mirage, hovers this wavering smile...