Word: exits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their lives. Salan has already been condemned to death in absentia for his part in the Revolt of the Generals. De Gaulle has already escaped one S.A.O. assassination attempt. When it failed, he is reported to have remarked with a trace of regret, "Une belle sortie [a nice exit]." At 71, what De Gaulle dreads more than loss of life is loss of reputation, a downgrading of his place in history...
...Exit Tennessee Williams. Enter Samuel Beckett, for about 40 minutes of motionless movie. The mechanic locks the heroine in his dingy little basement apartment. Why? "You're my last chance." he mumbles cryptically. "Let me out!" she screams. He shakes his head. "Let me out!" she screams. He shakes his head. They eat. They sleep. He gets stoned. They eat. They sleep. He gets stoned...
...Exit Beckett. Enter Fannie Hurst, at her gurgliest, to provide a happy ending: the slob, who is really Prince Charming in disguise, wakes the spellbound heroine with the magic of his love, and they live happily ever after-in that dingy little basement apartment...
Into the vacuum left by the exit of the Portuguese have swept five boisterous, brawling political parties, each hopeful of attracting Indian favors by horror stories of subjugation under the Portuguese. One political leader, J. M. D'Souza of Goa's National Union Party, claims that the Portuguese civil authorities kept a collection of whipping canes, allowed their prisoners to pick the cane with which they were to be beaten. The Portuguese sometimes administered the beatings themselves, he said, but sometimes they were given by native Goans disguised in black masks against the wrath of their victims...
...through the Door of Life, cooing to an imaginary baby as Mother Bayard departs quietly through the Door of Death. The opera ends with Ermengarde, the last of the Bayards to occupy the old house, singing softly: "They're building a new house, fancy that"-and making her exit through the Door of Death. Hindemith translated the libretto into German, sacrificing some of the nostalgic quality of the original, as in the moving sextet by the entire family...