Word: apter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David Apter, chairman of the International Department, University of California at Berkeley, and Frank Mankiewicx, director of Peace Corps programs in Peru, will also participate...
...though Juno has more memorable characters and richer comedy, its tragedy is dented with willful, stagy melodrama, where in The Plough and the Stars, tragedy and comedy are locked in an unshatterable embrace. In The Plough O'Casey found, if no better materials for tragedy, then an apter moment. Under the stress of turbulent historic events, amid the gunfire and bloodshed of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, O'Casey could release his anger and compassion alike, could expose the failings of his compatriots in the very act of exhibiting the fortitude. The immemorial heartbreak of For men must work...