Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps it was a measure of Barrault's success that when he left us, Cambridge seemed to be a "broad-backed hippopotamus" with its belly in the mud, and all the theatrical excitement a peculiar bubble on its back. Yet there was no lack of enthusiasm while he was here. He was kind enough to say that the Barrault company was captured by Cambridge. The audiences were certainly very eager even when their French was not of the best. And often it was an unusual audience, made up of local school girls dutifully herded to Sanders or great masses...
Arab guerrillas who ambushed and killed two British soldiers were reported to be in the village of Danaba (pop. 120), a border hamlet of mud and stone huts. Danaba was warned by leaflet that it would be bombed. Promised the R.A.F. officer commanding the operation: "The fearsome sight will frighten the Arabs . . . a terrific explosion will echo up the hills. The tribesmen will be somewhere watching the show...
Everywhere, on mud walls and in expensive neon lights, the Congress Party svmbol of two yoked oxen could be seen. Virtually helpless to fight against the incumbent party's steam roller, all the opposition could do was hope to build, as one of them put it, "a healthy opposition" against the day when Nehru will not be around...
...this black picture Weese found a spot of light: a picture postcard on sale at his hotel. It showed a provincial chieftain's long adobe hut, with evenly-spaced, pointed buttresses made of mud that speared high above the slanted roof. Weese tucked it away for future reference. Then he went hunting for mahogany, which turned out to be so plentiful in Accra that it is used for Coca-Cola crates. Using that primitive tool of building research, the knife, he personally verified two facts: 1) termites feast on mahogany (the reason builders had stopped using...
...Wilder has filmed and cut it, is a striking piece of cinematic craftsmanship. One by one, like bricks in a rising wall the difficulties are stacked in front of the hero (James Stewart) and in the moviegoer's mind: bad weather, the sod runway almost ankle-deep in mud and spotted with potholes, high wires and high trees near the field's edge, engine running 30 revs too low, gas load at least a hundred gallons more than the plane has ever taken off with, pilot already worn from lack of sleep, worried faces of mechanics, earnest discouragements...