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...Indian tribes in the area blockaded the Trail, and throughout the next three years (1865-1868), the Indian chief Red Cloud, an Oglala Sioux, spearheaded a running battle with the U.S. cavalry for control of the Powder River area...
...treaty commission never intended to accept a compromise with the Indians, and only Red Cloud's resistance forced the government to abandon its plans for the Powder River country. The numerous peace commissions-three in two years-that arrived at Fort Laramie always sought Red Cloud's signature, and the great Sioux leader was willing to meet with the commissions...
Psalms of Two Davids sits like a merciful cloud on a pallid theatrical landscape. It is most engaging because it is filled with fits of life and envy in a time of profound dramatic boredom. Zwick has had the wit to let his cast try something new in every moment of the play...
...AURA OF UNREALITY surrounding last week's developments related to Indochina is familiar. But last week the confusion came from the genuinely contradictory implications of events on three continents, and did not merely grow out of the government's tendency to cloud any important issue with incomprehensible rhetoric...
...Theseus, spurned and disgraced, twists and writhes in an agony of incestuous love for her stepson Hippolytus. Loosening a white silk sash at her waist, she knots it around her throat, pulls it tight, then falls to the ground in a lifeless swoon, her hair spilling in an orange cloud over her crimson robes. On a balcony overhead, a chorus splits the air with a rising lament-a sort of aural locust swarm-followed by a series of immense, loud gong-tones...