Word: antiphons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was having trouble on another stage. He collaborated on a Swedish translation of esoteric U.S. Writer Djuna Barnes's allusive verse play, The Antiphon, which opened in Stockholm. Critics thought the play largely unintelligible, though one exonerated Hammarskjold, explaining that the translation job was "overwhelmingly difficult-almost like bringing order to the Congo...