Word: beggaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eidegger, 'Eidegger was a boozy beggar...
...OPEC. Through subsidies and dumping, nations would drive all-out to increase their exports; meanwhile, through stiffer tariffs and quotas, they would wall out imports. Such a mercantilist policy could lead to a tragic rerun of the 1930s, when most of the industrial nations were intensively trying to "beggar their neighbor." The result was a disastrous contraction of world trade and paralysis of the international monetary system. Thus the answer to the crisis created by high oil prices, conclude Simon and Kissinger, is not a recycling mechanism but a concerted effort to bring those prices down...
...catastrophe doesn't rule out heroism--in fact, even Colonel Quoc has his moments of humanity. "I'm not really so terrible," he tells an American colleague. "Sometimes when I pass a beggar I don't spit, and maybe even give him a coin." Fighter Kim, tortured by Americans determined to find out who blew up their friends the week before, strangles a companion whose capacity for resistance he doubts, slits his own wrists and lies down quietly to die. And Grandmother Pan survives the catastrophe to rummage among the rubble for her husband's legs. Maybe in certain circumstances...
...VIENNA of Measure for Measure is something like the London of The Beggar's Opera, a city where ordinary people have no recourse from the justice of their betters, except in miraculous happy endings. The City Center used almost the same set for both plays, and when the costumes for Measure for Measure weren't just cutely 19th century, they emphasized the resemblance too--the prostitutes in Vienna's red-light district, as the program helpfully labels what Shakespeare calls "A Street," could just as well be Londoners...
...mistake. "One may know by your Kiss, that your Gin is excellent," Mr. Peachum remarks, but his less capable daughter can only explain sorrowfully that she can't stop loving her husband--and that, coupled with the wit implicit in a good production, is what carries The Beggar's Opera beyond cynicism into anger...