Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The government has been working rapidly, desperately, to give itself a new look in the eyes of the world. Political arrests have all but ended, the top cops have been fired, and even the initials of the dread secret police have been changed from SIM to, of all things, C.I.A...
Little in the play, in fact, is particularly clean: palace guards have become city cops, and Etiocles and Polyneices no longer represent vanquished good and triumphing evil; both were "a pair of blackguards." But in Anouilh's world it is the blackguards, or at least the politically committed, who ultimately...
A score of Chicago cops stood placidly by, making no effort to break up the threatening mob. As the crowd grew angrier, Pastor Constien and his wife had mixed thoughts. Said she afterwards: "We were asked to help those people. That's why the Lord put us here." But...
One-Sixth Exiled. There is no doubt that Stroessner, 48, is still in command. Telephones are still tapped. Plainclothes cops still lounge near opposition homes. Cells are still packed with political prisoners. The army, so far, backs Stroessner resolutely. Some 300.000 Paraguayans-one-sixth of the population-live in exile...
Eve Wants to Sleep (in Polish). A zany cops-and-robbers farce whose cops are Keystone and whose badmen are clearly friends of Mack the Knife.