Word: baa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker, chides the British lower classes for being docile sheep that raise nary a baa of protest at their lot. The setting is an R.A.F. training camp, and the military gamesmanship is brisk and funny...
...even F.D.R.'s New Deal (WPA, PWA, NRA, etc., etc.) managed to cook up such a rich alphabet soup. Government agencies, politicians, labor unions, all 22 states and 13 political parties are known by their initials. BAA, BLA, BAP, BAM and BUM are prominent banks. MIC is the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, while MEC is the Ministry of Education and Culture, and MAC is a political action group called the Movimento Anticomunista. For slum clearance there is nothing quite so efficient as MUD (Democratic Urbanization Movement). And tax evaders must constantly watch out for the dread SFPRICFN, which...
Aggrey Awori will run both the 50-yd. dash and the hurdles, the two events in which he made an outstanding showing in last year's BAA meet...
...Wesker. George Orwell's image of the future was that of a boot unendingly stamping on a human face. Socialist-minded Playwright Wesker's image of the present, in Britain at least, is that of sheep endlessly being sheared and slaughtered by the Establishment without raising a baa of protest. Wesker calls his play "a kick up backside, with love" aimed at the British working class, and one of his characters scornfully berates the unimaginative, undemanding docility of that class: "You breed babies and you eat chips* with everything...
...sprint star Aggrey Awori turned in a brilliant time, but was again edged by Dartmouth's Gerry Ashworth in the 50 yard dash. Ashworth has run 9.4 in the 100 yard dash, and is rapidly returning to his earlier form. Awori had lost to the Indian star in the BAA meet last month by about a yard and was unable to decrease the margin on Saturday. The former Olympian had won the high hurdles earlier, however, in 7.4 seconds...