Word: fo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a good Confcience. When the Apoftle, James 3.17. mentions the Wisdom which is from above; he plainly implies that there is a Wifdom which is from below . And as the former is the Gift of God, who gives it liberally to thofe that ask it, as Solomon did; fo the latter is earthly, fenfual, and devilif? . Subtilty is nothing elfe but Wifdom degenerate; and Prudence is only Subtilty ftrain'd and purg'd from all Injuftice...
...basis for agreement. The U. S. Army has presumably been fighting more than ghosts for seven years, and the goals and motivation of the forces that have withstood that onslaught, the National Liberation Front, are at least worthy of respect. In any event, the self-righteous claim to wisdom fo the Harvard experts cannot be taken seriously...
...workers behead the huge "Fascist" puppet and plan a democratic Italy. But the new tyranny becomes the assembly line, about which Fo raises a characteristically Italian plaint: "Women who work on the assembly line are forced to make 40,000 body movements a day. As a result, 15% of them become sterile and 30% cripples. In some factories where men are subjected to continual movement and noise, 40% of the men become impotent...
...Fo has turned his back on a footlight fame that shines far beyond Italy. Son of a recently retired railroad worker, Fo was an enthusiastic amateur actor in his youth, appearing in student plays while studying architecture in Milan. At 24 he worked up a one-man act reciting monologues. His first nationwide success was a three-act tragi-comedy that examined the making of a hero, coming to the conclusion that the hero is only a creation of the "big boss," who used him to keep the workers distracted while the boss exploited them. His greatest hit, written...
...Fo is Italy's most renowned contemporary playwright, and while he is little known in the U.S., 45 European theaters have produced his works in the past year alone, including performances in Germany, England, France and most of the Iron Curtain countries. Until recently, he and his blonde actress-wife Franca Rame could command combined annual earnings of $120,000. While Fo's plays still garner respectable royalties, he settles for $11.20 per diem in Grand Pantomime, which comes close to the average ticket price for a Broadway musical...