Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children (his parents had eleven) were caught in the cross fire of their family quarrels. His father brought his mistress into their home. His mother gave "her lover, an officer, a certificate of her full satisfaction"-a document which fell into her husband's hands. He wanted to commit her to an insane asylum, finally succeeded in imprisoning her in a convent. And so on and so on, through libelous pamphlets, lawsuits, threatening letters, dirty verses pinned on doors, pornographic memoirs, in such detail that readers may find themselves longing for Little Women and A Girl of the Limberlost...
...bill strengthened that hope by making continuing U.S. aid conditional on "continuity of cooperation" abroad. It called for a multi-lateral treaty, with the U.S. binding participants to the pledges of self-help and mutual aid laid down in the Paris report. Bilateral pacts with individual nations would commit each participant to 1) increase production (particularly in steel, coal, transport and food); 2) stabilize its currency; 3) cut tariff walls; 4) dig up hoarded assets; and 5) make strategic raw materials available...
...suspect his pressagent (Edmond O'Brien) of being a backstage Cassio. He also experiences some sickening sideslips into full loss of identity. The company becomes more & more nervous about the frightening sincerity with which he plays his strangling scene with Desdemona. Will he finally go completely bats and commit murder...
Maverides, part owner of a night-club, has had numerous previous brushes with the law. In 1936 he was given three prison sentences totaling from six to ten years on charges of auto larceny receiving stolen goods, breaking and entering to commit larceny carrying a revolver, and carrying burglar's tools...
McCarthy grumpily conceded that Ginsberg had a legal right to commit what McCarthy considered a moral wrong, but added: "I hope men like Ginsberg will be forced out of business...