Word: cocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voters had endured every variety of speech, parade and accusation. In the slums of Lagos, naked children ran through the streets blowing "ZEE-EEK" on whistles handed out by supporters of Eastern Region Premier Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, or noisily deflated colored toy balloons producing the sound of a crowing cock, symbol of Zik's N.C.N.C. Party. Overhead, imported skywriters drew a palm tree in the sky, symbol of Zik's free-spending opponent, Obafemi Awolowo, premier of the Western Region. Twelve busloads of ringers from Ghana were discovered just in time, and turned back at the border before...
...Fighting Cock (adapted from the French of Jean Anouilh by Lucienne Hill) reveals an Anouilh more balanced than bitter in mood, and more effective as a philosophe than as a playwright. His play is an often witty variant on a persisting theme, perhaps all the more persisting because it poses an insoluble question. The Fighting Cock concerns a retired general disgusted by a world he finds filled with "cheats" and lost to honor. He would like to stir up a movement to get rid of the "maggots." Against this testy idealist rooted in the past, Anouilh sets a number...
...worldly observer with both heart and spleen, shows a certain contempt for the riders of bandwagons, he mocks his knight with compassion. And where, in earlier and bitterer mood, Anouilh set his version of Moliere's surly misanthrope against a too complaisant world, his hero in The Fighting Cock comes closer to Cervantes' cracked...
Perhaps no playwright today is more gifted than Anouilh at creating little dialectical monologues or variety turns, at giving a mockingbird's-eye view of a given subject. Dotted with bright remarks, The Fighting Cock half a dozen times foams up into pointed or picturesque little scenes. But instead of a sense of fermentation beneath the foam, there is a good deal of dramatic flatness. It is not so much that the play finds no destination as that it fails to dramatize the very lack of one. What The Fighting Cock needed, in the face...
...Army intelligence officers that in late '42 or early '43. Fellow Traveler Haakon Chevalier, at the time Assistant Professor of French at the University of California, sounded out three Los Alamos scientists with a view to transmitting atomic information to Russia. Later, Oppenheimer dubbed this testimony "a cock-and-bull story." His revised version: Chevalier was approached by a mutual friend and Soviet sympathizer, reported the matter to Oppenheimer, and both men agreed that the suggestion was treasonable (this exchange, Chevalier later said, took place in the pantry of Oppenheimer's house while the scientist was mixing...