Word: torch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What perhaps was most pathetic about the Morrison and LaPorte suicides was the futility of such attempts at martyrdom. Where dissent is harshly silenced, spectacular means of protest may be needed; within the ample means and methods of U.S. democracy, a human voice means more than a human torch. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause," Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel once said, "while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly...
Died. Dorothy Dandridge, 41, Negro singing star, who in the 1950s ruled the supper clubs with her stunning beauty, gold lame-clad figure and torch songs (Love Isn't Born, It's Made), later turned to films, giving starring performances in Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess, but then saw the torch dim, was forced into bankruptcy in 1963; of a stroke; in Hollywood...
Ramiro Valdés, Castro's Minister of Interior, suggested as much in a brief radio speech last week. "We must fight," he told Cubans, "against internal espionage, sabotage, acts of terrorism and attempted assassinations." A few weeks ago, according to one report, saboteurs put the torch to two Cuban PT boats in Santiago harbor. Another report tells of a Cuban antiaircraft battery that gunned down a Cuban army transport in the belief that Castro was aboard...
...Australia's most promising teen-age runner, Ron Clarke received the honor at 19 of carrying the Olympic torch into the Melbourne stadium for the start of the 1956 Olympics. The slim (6 ft. 168 lbs.) distance man did not himself catch fire until about a year...
...will be overrun by barbarians. Nor will I venture comparisons with historic periods in the American past. If I should so much as mention the year 1814, for example, I daresay there would be some to accuse me of advocating that the city of Washington be put to the torch again...