Word: dragoon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...composer Sullivan, who manages a special, though for him certainly not unique, lyricism when she performs. Sharon Dennis, Carolyn Firth, and Juliet Cunningham are all excellent as Rapturous Maidens, displaying a sense of ensemble which has thus far eluded a good many professional companies. The officers of the dragoon guards likewise observe each other on stage. Theirs is the comedy of loud plainmindedness, of just enough mugging at just the right pace. James Paul in particular commends himself as Lieut., the Duke of Dunstable...
Hitting North. So incensed was Majority Leader Mike Mansfield by his colleagues' purposeful absenteeism that he threatened to have the sergeant at arms arrest recalcitrant Senators and dragoon them onto the floor. After this warning, a quorum finally materialized, and the bill was accepted for debate. However, having reluctantly answered the quorum call, most Senators, Republican and Democratic alike, quickly disappeared again. Since a recess can be demanded whenever 51 members can not be rounded up for a roll call, and since 51 Senators could rarely be rounded up last week, Southerners primed for filibuster were able to save...
...legs, coming into focus with exquisite timing. Soon the audience becomes vicarious inhabitants of Britko's village. We walk down the main street behind Briko as he tips his hat to friends; we stop to hear an old fiddler play a bitter-sweet tune; we cringe when a Nazi dragoon marches...
...Dragooning a Voice. "Journalism is the most fascinating of all professions," Beaverbrook once wrote, "and if I had my time over again, I would give my whole life to it." But nearly half his life lay behind him when he bought the London Daily Express in 1916, not to turn journalist but to dragoon a public voice for his political ambitions. The self-made Canadian multimillionaire aspired to nothing less for himself than a tenancy at No. 10 Downing Street, nothing less for England than perpetuation of the British Empire. Both dreams went glimmering. He could take a strong hand...
Airman Thompson (Gary Bond), whose nickname is "Pip," has chosen to be conscripted seemingly out of hatred for his father, a general symbolizing all that the Establishment stands for. The officers regard Pip as a traitor to his class and plan to lure or dragoon him back above the salt. His squad mates love to hear stories of Pip's filthy-rich upbringing in a stately 18th century manor, couldn't care less when he tries to ignite their class feeling with tales of the French Revolution, and remain stubbornly suspicious of him as a snob...