Word: hunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Royal Hunt of the Sun, by Peter Shaffer. A huge heraldic signet bearing a black cross is pinned with ascetic severity to the rear wall of the stage. Suddenly, it begins to open like secret paneling. Triangular sections peel back, and tongues of gold lick the surrounding dark. In the center of the blazing disk, like a jeweled idol released from a total eclipse, stands the sun god, the Inca, immutable, glorious, incandescent. In another scene, bitter light stipples the Spanish soldiers' helmets and swords as they pantomime their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes, and the men seem...
...albatross in the form of a narrator, always an ill omen that the drama will be becalmed. He harangues the listener on the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church and the evils of war and plunder. His ultimate theme is that God is dead and life lacks meaning. Royal Hunt is a sort of Tiny Alice shorn of obscurantism and sent to Inca land...
...raised by the playwright's view of all life as a bleak cheat. Most men have stronger human ties than Shaffer's hero, and they take life on faith, with an acceptance of what is good, bad and mortal about it. The flamboyant staging of Royal Hunt widens the spectator's eye, but the confrontation of two heroes and two civilizations compels neither cheers nor tears...
...aide, who asked to remain anonymous, denied that Dodd is undertaking a "commie hunt," as members of the M2M have intimated. "The Senator has always insisted that free speech must be protected," the aide continued, "but free speech does not include recruiting Americans to fight other Americans supplying the enemy, or burning draft cards...
...protestors maintain, the demonstrations are meant to be more than an outlet for individual indignation, they are falling. Instead of mobilizing popular support-against U.S. policy and causing it to change, they are only stimulating a McCarthy-like witch hunt and alienating the vast majority of the American people...