Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Innovator. In Paris, Alfredo Bindi tried, but failed, to commit suicide by devouring his suspenders...
Though the subject that concerned her had no limits, she had. Although she was always troubled by the fear of madness (it led her to commit suicide), she never felt at home with the writers of despair or abnormality...
...convincing mixture of malice and weakness that one forgets completely that the character is itself unrealistic and even ludicrous. Her murder of Ezra is revenged by her two children, the weak Orin, and the strong Lavina (the Electra of Aeschylus). After killing their mother's lover and making her commit suicide, they are obsessed by their own guilt, and Orin, who is played superbly by Michael Redgrave, commits suicide himself, while Lavinia, played by Rosalind Russell with what is probably the best acting of her career, retires to the Mannon mansion to spend the rest of her life suffering...
Forrestal's urgent report was the final pressure behind the President's call for selective service and U.M.T. The decision had been taken after long consultation between White House, State Department and Defense heads. The decision was to commit the U.S. to full military support of Western Union-even if that should mean, in event of war, a military retreat from the Mediterranean. To make the guarantee effective, the U.S. needed, in one of Marshall's favorite phrases, "the military posture" to lend its words authority...
...from any of the divisions, has an annual income of about $2 million, some of which is ordinarily used to absorb deficits shown in various relatively minor divisions, such as the library and veterans housing, at the end of a year. But the University considers it bad business to commit its money, and when the estimated costs for the year of such a major division as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences run more than $600,000 over the estimated income, which is the ease in 1948-49, that Faculty must do something to balance its own budget...