Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PATRIOT FOR ME. Playwright John Osborne tells the story of Alfred Redl, a homosexual officer of the decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire who was forced to commit suicide when it was found that he had been selling state secrets to the Russians. Osborne's voice is badly muffled, and he cannot seem to work up the passion to breathe an inner life into the play...
...novelist searching for an honest man-or at least a protagonist who can face a tough moral decision with honesty. In A Covenant with Death, a youthful judge must decide the fate of a man who kills his executioner after being convicted of a murder that he did not commit. Juice concerns a wealthy businessman fighting the machinery mobilized to exonerate him of the drunken-driving death of a pedestrian. Now, in his sixth novel, Becker, 42, turns back to the Civil War. In an excellent period morality tale, a Union Army officer attempts to save the life...
...decided not to have it done in Boston. I was talking to a friend and he told me if I walked into a psychiatrist's office here looking even relatively self-assured, I would get turned down. I wasn't going to lie and say I was about to commit suicide. And I didn't have any record of mental illness. Besides, I heard that there was a chance that they might contact my parents, and I couldn't risk that. They didn't ask for parental consent in London, Just a letter from my doctor here...
...Rosenbloom said that his talk was to persuade Faculty members that "they should commit themselves to a process of self-examination, education, and renewal that will require more than a trivial amount of their time in the next two years...
...that I hope that stringent laws against heterosexuals who "commit forcible rape, seduce children or commit sex acts in public" will remain on the books...