Word: lysistrata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Take Me Along could do with more dancing, but a gay Aubrey Beardsley ballet, a sort of absinthe-coated peppermint stick, wickedly whirls all Actor Morse's callow, adolescent sex fantasies-Salome and George Sand, Lysistrata and Camille -into one. As the show proceeds, certain scenes are repeated, certain songs are reprised. But from the outset, Take Me Along puts its trust in mood rather than momentum. Rather than shattering the funny bone, ravishing the ear or dazzling the eye, it just leaves a nice taste in the mouth...
...reach an accord by then, the Government will have to step in." Last week the Administration repeated that it had no intention of stepping in. The strongest public pressure for a settlement came from 100 steelworkers' wives who, with a bow to the women of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, gathered at a hall in McKeesport, Pa. over their husbands' protests, whipped off angry telegrams demanding that both union and management get cracking in negotiations. Said the women in a resolution: "Let's put an end to all the folderol...
Miss McKenna will appear in at least one other play at the Center besides Macbeth. At a press conference following the tree-planting she said that she hoped the season would open with a comedy, adding that As You Like It and Aristophanes' Lysistrata have received consideration...
...source of the sack is Moscow. It will be Khrushchev's greatest triumph. It spreads discontent, unrest, antagonism and hostility. It isn't even subliminal-its nonlinear." Speaker Stevenson suggested that women use the chemise in a dressed-up version of the gimmick from Aristophanes' Lysistrata, in which Greek women go on a sex strike until husbands give up warring: "Let women say-peace, or the sack...
...Moroccan women pinned pictures of the Sultan and Aisha on their walls, slipped back and forth between French and Moroccan lines smuggling arms and revolutionary tracts beneath their flowing djellabahs. Thirteen-year-old girls signed up in clandestine cells of the Istiqlal Party. And in a Moroccan version of Lysistrata, thousands of Moroccan women denied themselves to their husbands for two years for fear of bringing into the world children born under the shameful reign of the Sultan's French-appointed successor, Ben Moulay Arafa...