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...riots exploded in a dreary slum around Roosevelt Road, southwest of The Loop, where residents-as in other neighborhoods-opened fire hydrants in a vain attempt to mitigate a day of 95° heat and 70% humidity. The police, as usual, came around to close the hydrants-only to be defied at one point by a young Negro man, who set the flow going again...
...Shoot to Kill." While King and other clergymen, Negro and white, roamed the streets pleading in vain with the rioters to disperse, a police chaplain, the Rev. Robert Holderby, told angry police at one point: "You're here to enforce the law, not to inflame." One white minister working with King was swept aside by police. "You're only making these people angrier the way you're acting," he remonstrated. "I don't care," the patrolman answered. "Move out, do you hear...
...with the power of the throne behind him. Edward insisted on a guarantee, before he was crowned, that a morganatic marriage would be acceptable. Beaverbrook made clear that he thought the person who really sought this guarantee was the woman whom Edward loved. "I knew my urgings were in vain," he said. "A morganatic marriage was what Mrs. Simpson wanted, and what Mrs. Simpson wanted was what the King wanted...
That was the way Errol Flynn did it in They Died With Their Boots On in 1941. How George Custer himself did it 90 years ago last month-on June 25, 1876-is still a good question, since there were no survivors of Custer's command. Why the vain lieutenant colonel, who at 24 had been a major general in the Civil War, got into such a predicament in the first place, and especially why the Sioux pounced on him with such ferocity, has always been debated. Now these two small but impressively researched books offer a concise account...
...mood of his plays is traumatic loss, a vestigial memory of the expulsion from Eden. With elegiac melancholy, Beckett intones a Kyrie eleison without God. Godot is hope's requiem. The two tramps are waiting for Godot in vain. In Endgame, the lid is lifted on a character who is dying in an ashcan, and it is disclosed that "he's crying." "Then he's living," says another. The only sort of affirmation lies in Beckett's very act of communicating the darkness of his vision. As Eric Bentley puts it: "If one truly had lost...