Word: deathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CRIMES OF PASSION. The late British playwright Joe Orton (Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot) was much possessed by death, which he treats in these two one-acters with a grisly sense of humor. He died before he had mastered his craft, but rarely in recent years has the theater lost such an original imagination...
Perhaps society should adjure to the ancient law of putting to death all deviates...
...over a U.S. defeat. What he had done, he explained, was to begin "a pursuit for peace on many fronts"-including private proposals for a settlement that he initiated even before taking office, and a personal letter sent to Ho Chi Minh before the North Vietnamese President's death. "No progress whatever has been made," Nixon reported grimly, "except agreement on the shape of the bargaining table." The more support he got at home, he said, the sooner he could redeem his pledge "to end the war in a way that we could win the peace...
...landlords? Who decides what happens to the air in every city in America? The people who breathe it or the gas companies and the owners of Standard Oil? Somehow, on the critical matters, the men of wealth and power and privilege in America make the decisions of life and death for everyone else. The program notes reprinted this quote from Howard Zinn's Moratorium Day speech and the play gives the answer...
Everywhere, we seemed to get similar responses. Half the tenants of the orthodox Jewish community were afraid to open their doors for fear of death, while groups of young Spanish speaking children went running up and down the stairs, playing happily, totally unaware of frightened faces behind closed doors...