Word: monoliths
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Credit for the formidable task of winnowing out a set of passages simultaneously suited to the theatre and representative of the book, belongs to Mary Manning, who selected and organized the scenes as well as ably directing the production. It would be quite impossible to distill Joyce's monolith into two hours of speech and song and still retain all the thematic complexities, with their continual restatement in terms of almost everything in myth and history. Miss Manning has been wise in not attempting this, for the result could only be tedious and disastrously confusing. Her arrangement retains a circular...
...subsidies and prerogatives accorded to them by the French colonials, are dangerous. "Reorganize your government within five days," said their ultimatum. "Replace it with one that is suitable." The man at the desk bristled with stubborn irritation. "While we permit ourselves foolishness like this," he snapped, "there is a monolith against...
...crowded the mission church of St. Anne in Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa. The church's curving Gothic arch resembled the silhouette of an outsized mud hut, and its lofty vaults and arches were modeled after palm trees. The altar was made of two rough boulders topped by a monolith and the simple carved benches resembled witch doctors' ritual chairs. With its glassless windows admitting light and air and its roof covered with brilliant emerald tiles, the church seemed like a cool spot in the jungle...
...above all, Moscow's confession of failure, admission of serious shortcomings, and blustered warnings were proof of the essential myth of the Red monolith. A going concern does not shake up its management at the very top. After 37 terrible years of trying, the Soviet Communist system had still not found ways to feed and clothe its people, satisfy its national needs and provide a stable succession of governments-the Kremlin leaders openly confessed...
...East more than half the people in the world, together with the Soviet Union in the struggle . . . This is an extremely mighty force, which becomes mightier and mightier." Yet from North Viet Nam, since Geneva, about 450,000 Vietnamese have escaped through chinks in the new Viet Minh monolith, leaving the antiseptic tyranny of Uncle Ho for the South's cha otic freedom. The articulate among these huddles of refugees complain that the Viet Minh has destroyed the customs and friendlinesses of the past, and has spat upon family ties and religion...