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These two brands of comedy are what Comedians, a scathingly funny, perceptively angry and warmly humane play is all about. Those who have relished the plays of David Storey, particularly The Changing Room, will feel immediately at home with Fellow Briton Trevor Griffiths' characters. Six Man chester men with paltry jobs aspire to be entertainers in workingmen's clubs, with a possible whack at the London big time. Each act is one leg of a tripod - final warmup, audition, postmortem...
...Chief Judge Ernesto Texeira da Silva, in declaring the sentences, coldly described the mercenaries as "dogs of war with bloodstained muzzles who left a trail of rape, murder and pillage across the face of our nation." Four men were condemned to death: Costas Georgiou, 25, the notorious Cypriot-born Briton who, as "Colonel Tony Callan," had ordered 13 of his own men shot; Andrew McKenzie, 25, Georgiou's second in command, who had helped execute the men; John Derek Barker, 35, another Briton; and Gearhart. The other nine, including two Americans, Gary Acker, 21, of Sacramento, Calif., and Gustavo...
...women, along with a lot of unusual third-person verb forms ("He have his goodness now"). But one has only to compare The Crucible with Shaw's Saint Joan--another play that climaxes with confession, recantation and martyrdom--to see how much greater a master of language the Briton...
...neburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, has not done his best. The first English-born monarch since Queen Anne died more than 60 years ago, George proudly proclaimed in his first speech from the throne that he "gloried in the name of Briton."* Yet paradoxically, his patriotism, combined with the dogmatic, unyielding temperament he has shown since childhood, has torn apart the British Empire he inherited 16 years...
Schoettle has been in the battle a long time. He skippered a 5.5 meter in the 1956 Olympics at Melbourne and came within 15 seconds of a bronze medal, and in 1960 served as an alternate for the 5.5 an Finn class. His brother crewed for Dr. Briton Chance in a 5.5 in the 1952 Olympics and came home with a gold medal, and finished second in a Tempest to Glen Foster in the 1972 U.S. trials and went to Keil as an alternate. He is no stranger to Olympic sailing...