Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were all for the war then, except Bruce, who was on the executive committee of SDS, then quit at the end of year with no explanation (this was to be the first of many events with no explanation, a situation I managed to adjust to). Bruce argued against the war with many people. By the next year we were all against the war, and I suppose that now, three years later, we are still against...
Unwilling to trust the play, Kahn has cut the text liberally, transposed lines, distributed the one-man Chorus speeches among four persons, imported dialogue from the end of 2 Henry IV (delivered over loudspeakers), and added lines of his own by way of scene descriptions. And there is a steady parade of gimmicks and odd bits of business, borrowed from such sources as the plays of Brecht, Genet's The Balcony, and the Living Theatre's Mysteries and Smaller Pieces. Kahn is, like Autolycus in The Winter's Tale, a 'snapper-up of unconsidered trifles." He has seen...
...long row, humming and swaying from left to right--an inspired fusion of the quick and the dead. The effect of this scene is shattering and unforgettable. But, as with the traitors' pantomime, Kahn indulges himself too much and keeps the masks on the men right through to the end of the show, including the light-hearted woong scene, thereby diluting the masks' impact...
...mistiming, Daladier panicked and Chamberlain crumbled when Hitler was bluffing, as in the 1938 confrontation over the Sudetenland, which led to the Munich sellout. On the other hand, less than a month before the outbreak of World War II, Chamberlain was placidly grouse shooting in Scotland. Almost to the end, the old Tory was more indignant about radicals at home than fascists abroad...
...end, Mosley carries his argument: that history provided moments of decision, and most of the choices were flubbed-out of stupidity, cowardice and petty self-interest. Churchill's words after Munich today read flamboyant but true: "The government had to choose between shame and war. They chose shame and they will get war." Curiously, Hitler once pointed to the same moral-that one's character finally becomes one's destiny. When he discovered how formidable the Czech bunkers might have proved, he said: "What does it matter how strong the concrete is so long as the will...