Word: violent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understandable. As the Castro government continues to develop into rule by personal fiat, it moves further and further from its earlier liberalism. In more than nine months of life, the revolutionary government has hardly begun to fulfill its initial promises, and Dr. Castro can expect increasing, and perhaps more violent, criticism. Anti-communist army officers are already threatening a revolt...
...crazy-shaped door on the unrealistic, O'Neill grew bolder in his broodings-and more confused. In The Great God Brown, his psychological quarry was the split personality, his technical gimmick the use of masks. Turning a masked face to the world, Dion Anthony (Fritz Weaver) seems Panlike, violent, blasphemous, sexually magnetic. Without his mask, Anthony quivers and quakes, is reverent toward God and repellent to women. Dion's school friend Billy Brown (Robert Lansing) grows up decent and successful but frustrated. He envies Dion's personality, craves Dion's wife, and, at Dion...
...There have been almost twice as many hours of sunshine this year in France as in normal years, apparently because of a high-pressure area in the Canary Islands that pushed the normal summer storms southward. Thus the northern vineyards enjoyed a season of incomparable warmth, free of the violent hailstorms that slash the vines and bruise the grapes. At the same time there has been enough moisture in the ground to keep the vines fresh. "The leaves are still green as we pick," says one grower. "This means a glycerine content that will give the vintage an exceptional body...
...idyl ends. The girl's family retrieves her, and she scrawls on a window with a diamond: "You will forget Henriette." Though heartbroken, Casanova goes on to innumerable other adventures. In Venice, he seduces a 15-year-old convent girl, then begins a violent affair with the beautiful nun who is her French teacher-fittingly enough, because she is also the mistress of the French ambassador. And so it goes. Yet he has not altogether forgotten Henriette. Years later, they will meet again. By that time she will be fat and Casanova feeble. As Havelock Ellis pointed...
...Gracie. If the expected storms hold off, the small varsity line should be able to work its precision attack to perfection--early-season perfection, at least. But a murky playing field or a driving rain would give the larger Jumbos a definite advantage. Then, too, the weather may become violent enough to postpone the game, as it did last fall...