Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play ends with Terekhine's crime discovered and his punishment in the offing. He obviously represents the gamut of hypocritical, cruel, supremely selfish obstacles to the Soviet ideal. At one point he rehearses a speech about hunger with his mouth full of bread and beer. But even as Terekhine is apprehended, so the authors seem to imply that the Soviet cause will ultimately be purified. Full of good talk and temperamental skirmishes, the play reveals a sophisticated degree of analysis. It is the first production of the Theatre Guild Studio, experimental offshoot of the Theatre Guild employing its younger...
...kingless Kingdom of Hungary is still a country of great landed estates in the hands of a few very wealthy men. Far more than cash does the ownership of even a few acres of land bring prestige to a Hungarian peasant. "Land hunger," greed to increase their holdings by hook or crook, is a besetting vice of the Magyar. Fear lest their acres should have to be subdivided is one reason why Hungarian landowners seldom have more than one child. Tenant farmers are notably more prolific...
...Nothing . . . nothing but hunger . . . terrible hunger," replies Whisk, with stark Polish realism. "I was hungry . . . and so poor . . . my children were dying of hunger...
...hunger does not give us the right to take what does not belong to us. You surely know that...
...feared the Winter, gracious King . . . the Winter so terribly long and hard. . . . Gracious King, last Winter, half my children died. Ah, how I suffered! The youngest . . . my youngest child, your Majesty, died before my eyes of hunger. Six days and six nights I looked on ... and still lived . . . lived on ... and could...