Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...methods have sure changed. Nowadays, they talk about the coming of the electronic battlefield...
DESPITE THEIR EGOCENTRICITY, the tribe members evoke sympathy for their cause. Hair extends beyond individuals to a more depersonalized and timeless struggle against the status quo, a fight that appears doomed before it reaches the battlefield. When Claude is carted off to Vietnam, he leaves the tribe behind, singing about "facing a dying nation" and pleading to "let the sunshine in." By this time, the audience is completely on their side...
...American pragmatist hated war but nonetheless nourished a great admiration for the military virtues: hardihood, collective fervor, discipline. If these could be diverted from the battlefield, he reasoned, the nation could harness the spirit and energy usually evoked only by local conflict or foreign adventure and be the richer for it. He called for, instead of military service, a "conscription of the whole youthful population to form for a certain number of years a part of the army enlisted against Nature...
Most of the battlefield gains seem to have been made by the Moroccans. In part, though, the lift in Zaïre's fortunes was due to the fact that Mobutu belatedly shipped additional pay, food and weapons to his 4,000 soldiers in Shaba. In the interests of boosting their morale, he made a rather bizarre request of Washington: that some 16,000 cases of canned Coca-Cola be included in the $15 million in "nonlethal" military equipment the U.S. is sending to Zaïre. It seems that potable water for the thirsty soldiers is in short...
...real reason for the disintegration that sets in after Borodino is that history is being made too fast. Jumping from the battlefield to Andrei's death to Natasha's marriage with Pierre, the play loses its sense of drama and becomes a mere chronicle of events. Once more the audience is left wondering with Pierre "What does this all mean?" By the end of War and Peace, despite the valiant struggle of the director and cast, only the historian knows for sure...