Word: debat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...achieved at court or in the country? Or is place ultimately irrelevant? Should we be content with the "real" world or espouse the pursuit of an idealized pastoral existence? And how can romantic love best function? In the tradition of the medieval and Renaissance poetic contests (such as the debat, disputaison, tenso, and conflictus), the play's cast becomes something of a debating society, and the text is filled with double-entry bookkeeping. This is, then, a highly literary play as well as a highly artificial one. It is also eminently lyrical, although nearly two-thirds of it is written...
Whether the Mather figures provide a more accurate representation of the crowding situation than Collier's numbers is a highly debat able point...
...Communist," said one West European diplomat, "its government has got to have a strong grip on the people and the economy. The Brazzaville government has hardly any grip at all." Since 1968, when an army coup led by Captain Marien Ngouabi overthrew the leftist government of President Alphonse Massamba-Debat, the regime has been rocked by two major Cabinet shakeups and at least two attempted coups. It has also tried at least 18 former high officials on charges of treason...