Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...faced the executive committee of his home state's Republican Committee. As down-to-earth politicians, committee members were restless about the awkward, up-in-the-air position of the state's convention delegation. Some of them wanted to pledge the delegation to Nixon, others wanted to commit it to Rockefeller as a favorite son. but all wanted a decision on the delegation's status. At an executive committee meeting in Albany. Rockefeller extracted a resolution that will send New York's 96-vote delegation to the convention uninstructed and uncommitted. In return he agreed...
...tennis racket as a spaghetti strainer. There is a piece of business in which the heroine, when asked how many affairs she has had, admits to three but unconsciously lifts four fingers. And there is a telephone conversation between Lover Mac-Murray and Mistress MacLaine (she has tried to commit suicide, and he couldn't care less about her condition-or more about the possible scandal) that makes a rarely profound and ignoble vignette...
Characters in several Snow novels die from other causes and suffer from other afflictions; several commit suicide or go mad, struck down by some unexplained flaw of character or of fate. The scientific promise of food and health has obviously not been able to save them, and Snow evades that dilemma. The poor boy who found his way through the corridors of power still finds it more pertinent to insist, with old-fashioned and unabashed optimism, that "industrialisation is the only hope of the poor...
...series called The Barbarians, about a Celtic prince named Ravic (Jack Palance) who lived 2,100 years ago, but was able to get around with modern speed: in the first one-hour episode alone he is captured by the Carthaginians, made a galley slave, sees his beloved sister commit suicide to avoid dishonor, leads a revolt, is recaptured and sentenced to be crucified, is saved by a voluptuous Carthaginian princess, escapes in a trireme, and becomes a pirate...
...only Carmen in operatic history to commit suicide was an opulently constructed New Jersey girl named Gussie Seit. That was seven years ago, at the Chicago Lyric Opera, after terrible-tempered Tenor David Poleri, appearing as Don José, stalked off the stage in the final act snarling at the conductor, "Finish it yourself." Gussie finished it herself by singing Don José's part as well as her own. At the moment of truth, when Don José was to have stabbed her, she stuck her thumb in her chest and dropped on the stage...