Word: downs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The depth of the U.S. involvement in Laos is not immediately apparent in the seedy, down-at-the-heels capital of Vientiane. There is none of the neon nightmare that Americans have brought to Bangkok, and the town does not creak under the weight of the U.S. military as does...
Despite impressive economic progress, East Germany still lags far behind the Federal Republic; its living standard is estimated to be as much as one-third lower. Politically, it remains under tight Communist control. One of the last of Eastern Europe's doctrinaire Stalinists, Ulbricht is backed by 167,000...
They turned out to be well-intentioned but poorly informed people who could not solve real problems. Another kind of trouble has arisen in Maine, where down-Easters resent being told what to do with their land. Many have stubbornly refused to pay any attention to their conservation commissions.
Paralyzed by Inadequacy. This is where the play actually begins, and the events that follow have resonances of The Homecoming-though Irish Playwright Thomas Murphy's play was produced four years before Pinter's. The brothers make passes at Michael's wife and even suggest using his...
A significant theater seems to require the kinetic tempo, the minute-to-minute violence and conflict, the constant intellectual bombardment and diversity that can exist only in a great city. The prime fallacy behind regional theater is the notion that architecture induces art, that bricks breed genius. After more than...