Word: lysistrata
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...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...
Echoing the classical threat in Lysistrata, Mrs. Norah Hinks urged the National Conference of Labor Women at Torquay to lock their husbands out of their bedrooms until the government agreed to call off the H-bomb tests. After three hours' bitter wrangling with the pacifists and Bevanites in his own parliamentary party, Gaitskell caved in. To avoid a party split, he backed a compromise, urging postponement of the tests for a "limited period...
...left Sid Caesar for greener folding money, will star in High Button Shoes. Producer's Showcase will offer Somerset Maugham's The Letter (produced and directed by William Wyler), a musical version of Jack and the Beanstalk with Celeste Holm and Cyril Ritchard. John Huston's Lysistrata, Anatole Litvak's Mayerling with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, Claire Bloom in the Old Vic's Romeo and Juliet, the Lunts, making their TV debuts, in The Great Sebastians, Gene Kelly and Fredric March in Front Page, a Roy Rogers rodeo. NBC will also give opera, ballet...
Where The Maid is funny, The Conspirators is simply light-hearted. The plot is a 19th century version of the Lysistrata theme, glued together with pleasant music by Schubert. In the large cast, Timothy Cogan and Leonard Herzog are the most amusing. Jay Shuchter's stage direction makes effective use of military absurdities, and Michael Biddle has constructed an attractive set. The operas are under the fine musical supervision of Paul Sperry, who has been fortunate in getting Richard Friedberg as the accompanist. Too much studying is bad for the health...