Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philharmonic started business in 1860 with a program that included such contemporary crowd rousers as the overtures to Michele Carafa's La Prison d'Edimbourg and Francois Boieldieu's La Dame Blanche. Most of the time since, it has stuck to a rigid amateur policy; only the conductors and guest soloists are pros. Part of the orchestra's success stems from its organization; its governing board is made up of playing members, and each of the orchestra's 95 instrumentalists must survive an annual audition; if any player does not measure up, he loses...
...phrases and good, bad and indifferent jokes. They show him gradually, despite his embattled stand for integration, winning the hearts of all his white, Southern, Gentile neighbors. But in this game of hearts lurks a menacing queen of spades-the unsuspected fact that Golden had once served time in prison for mail fraud. It overhangs his life, until at last it breaks out in the headlines-only for all who know Harry Golden not just to rally round him but to render him homage...
Mahmud knew that he must pay for his crime. He rose in his prison cell at 3:30 on the morning of the day he was to be hanged. He made his religious ablutions by washing his arms, face and the insteps of his feet, prayed with the prison mullah, and sipped tea with relatives and friends. When one of his sisters broke into tears, Mahmud told her not to worry, said soothingly that "death comes to everyone in this world." Driving in a police car to Naserieh Square, where the public execution was to be held, Mahmud sang contentedly...
...ringing plea for woman's emancipation, she was superb as the child-wife who is treated as a mindless, soulless plaything by a priggish husband (Christopher Plummer). But while Actress Harris-kittenish, hectically gay and finally rebellious-could break out of Nora's plush Victorian prison, she could not wholly shake off the stilted language and obtrusive 19th century stagecraft which Adaptor James Costigan took over from Ibsen...
...Treatment Man, by William Wiegand. A skillfully written novel about a prison riot that is also a prickly parable of power and evil...