Word: extoll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not have to extol a radical party line to appreciate the avowedly political Passion of Antigona Perez. Only those who disfavor heroism and unalloyed democracy could find the play ideologically objectionable. Based on the Greek tragedy Antigone, the story is set in a modern Latin American distatorship where Antigona Perez has defied the State and now waits execution. The rape, tortune and brutality that is a way of life in such repressive regimes is minimal on stage. In fact, the play asks one to raise one's consciousness only so far as to accept that every action...
...extol the meson...
Come Nov. 2, Gerald Ford and his Republican colleagues, who extol principles completely devoid of compassion, pragmatism and common sense, will have little left with which to console themselves-except munching on peanuts...
...writing here to extol the virtues of the game of handball and to decry the disturbing trend in this University of late to supplant it with its inferior cousin. We speak of squash, that bastard child of tennis and handball...
...Kissinger flew off to the bourbon belt and in Birmingham outlined American interest against the Communists in Portugal. In Bloomington, Ind., meanwhile, Secretary of the Treasury William Simon was smiting big Government hip and thigh, while Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz went before Maine's poultry federation to extol the country's productive might and the virtues of Yankee enterprise in international markets...