Word: ik
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government continued to relax its authoritarian grip on South Korean life. Chun granted formal amnesty to 2,335 South Koreans, including Kim Dae Jung, who had been banned from politics. Another group of 357 people jailed for politically related offenses was released; among them was the Rev. Moon Ik Kwan, one of the country's most prominent dissidents before he was found guilty of sedition following student protests last year in the city of Inchon, near Seoul. More prisoners are expected to be freed in the near future, though the government and opposition disagree on the exact number of offenders...
...Hawke: "No one can gain or draw satisfaction from this wanton act of terrorism." Both India and Australia were to have been hosts to the Koreans later on the tour. In Los Angeles, 600 Koreans attended a memorial service at the Wilshire United Methodist Church. Said Korean Consul Moon Ik Chang: "We are very shattered...
...OS/UBU THE IK THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS...
...gluttony permeates a scene in which Mere Ubu (Miriam Goldschmidt in the Lady Macbeth role) entices an army officer (Bruce Myers) to join her and Mère Ubu (Macbeth) in their conspiracy to kill the king. The most ambitious work in the cycle is the least affecting. The Ik is based on Colin Turnbull's 1973 book, The Mountain People, the story of a Ugandan tribe that lost its hunting grounds. Ravaged by starvation, they became beasts, losing all traces of human compassion...
This should have been a tale of potent pa thos, but Brook's barebones staging starves The Ik of emotive power. It is a case of Less Is Not Enough...