Word: murdering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...subject is shown a picture and asked to describe the situation. What he sees in these somewhat ambiguous pictures is a very good indication of how he is feeling. (For instance, if he tells the story of a murder when shown a picture of a child sitting quietly by the fireside one can assume that he is fairly seething with aggressive ideas...
...first performance of a new work by an unknown young composer. Roared Damrosch, in facetious disavowal of music that he had nonetheless thought well worth performing: "If a young man of 23 can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder...
Many a listener, nerves frayed by the dissonances and the jerky jazzy rhythms he had just heard, sourly agreed. But time has proved audience and conductor wrong. Nobody has ever accused Aaron Copland of murder, even murder of harmony and counterpoint, and this week he reached his soth birthday the most-played and most-honored of living U.S.-born composers. From all over the world, his colleagues were letting him know...
...discharged soldier, half swashbuckler and half misanthrope, who wanders upon a market town to find it conducting a witch hunt. In an effort, both altruistic and egoistic, to divert attention from the unknown "witch" to himself, he bellows to anybody who will listen that he has committed murder and insists on being hanged. But once he sees the young and beguiling witch, he is willing to be cleared of murder and in a fair way to be cured of misanthropy...
...possible. But the real story, which Odets walks up to and then quickly away from, is a compact little tragedy of misunderstanding. It is the story of a woman whose husband is killing himself and dragging her with him and who, for a final indignity, is accused of his murder. It needs austere telling without a false word or a florid gesture-let alone the director's sudden lovemaking, that smashes The Country Girl to pieces...