Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trumpets of the Lord. Originally produced off Broadway in 1963, this musical adaptation of God's Trombones, by the late poet James Weldon Johnson, features James Earle Jones, Lex Monson, Jane White and Theresa Merritt...
...back into public service in 1961. As an ambassador at large, Harriman conducted the sensitive negotiations that brought about the 1962 Geneva accords on Laos. A year later, he represented the U.S. during the nuclear test-ban talks and initialed the treaty with Andrei Gromyko and Britain's Lord Hailsham-perhaps the high point of Harriman's career...
Over the next two days, rioting and looting spread over a ten-block area of Hamilton, causing $1,000,000 in damage and leaving seventeen persons injured. Bermuda's British Governor, Lord Martonmere, declared a state of emergency, imposed a curfew and asked for-and received-365 additional troops from Britain. All seemed quiet again by last week, but, like the scent of hibiscus, tension hung heavy in Bermuda's balmy...
Onstage, an incessant talkfest drones on about the methods and morality of war-all of it aimed at justifying Hochhuth's conviction that mass bombing should be prohibited by international law. Much of the time, Lord Cherwell (Joseph Shaw) confers with Churchill on the best tactics to follow. Cherwell, Churchill's friend and wartime scientific adviser, is presented as an eminence noire who, with a kind of icy diaholism, determined the Prime Minister's policies on both Sikorski and mass bombings. This again is at distinct variance with the historical record...
...about 8:30 a.m. we hear that the cops are coming. One-hundred-seventy-three people jump out the window. (I don't jump because I've been reading Lord Jim.) That leaves 27 of us sitting on the floor, waiting to be arrested. In stroll an inspector and two cops. We link arms and grit our teeth. After about five minutes of gritting our teeth it downs on us that the cops aren't doing anything. We relax a little and they tell us they have neither the desire nor the orders to arrest us. In answer...